Inmarsat has warned Asian customers of its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) that they will lose some protection over the following month as the operator repositions 3 satellites. The coverage gap for Asia will include a lot of China, most of southeast Asia, Western Australia, and all of Korea until the repositioning is completed tentatively by February 24.
The very first phase from the repositioning is currently underway, with the F2 satellite becoming relocated to better cover India and EMEA, Inmarsat's most heavily trafficked area. The repositioning move leaves a strip of the Atlantic Ocean and parts from the coasts of Africa, the UK and Greenland uncovered.
Once that stage is finished by February 7, the next phase will include moving the F1 satellite to extend coverage in the Asia-Pacific, presently Inmarsat's biggest BGAN client base.
Inmarsat's 3rd I-4 satellite (I-4 F3), launched late last 12 months, went into commercial service January 7, taking over BGAN visitors (including its new FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband clients for maritime and aeronautical, respectively) in the I-4 F2 satellite. Because the very first two I-4 birds were positioned to provide as much protection as possible till the 3rd satellite was ready, they should now be repositioned to optimize coverage over the land masses they serve and provide much better look angles for that terminals.
No client would completely lose support during the outage, and that everyone has been forewarned. Providers for maritime and aeronautical customers will nevertheless be accessible via the I-3 satellites, although some BGAN users will need to drop down to the previous-generation GAN services. Inmarsat and distributors have been functioning with them, and the client reaction may be positive because they all realize the net benefit of better service following the positioning is competed.
The customer base for providers like FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband, which leverage the I-4 satellites to allow broadband Internet services on ships and airplanes, is quite small. Inmarsat launched those providers about a year ago, and there's only about 1,500 FleetBroadband customers globally. It means there'll be very small impact for maritime users. Most of them have set up FleetBroadband gear alongside existing Inmarsat gear. They've something naturally to fall back on. And most importantly it doesn't effect
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