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SATCOM SingTel Unveils New Services At Boat Asia '98 Singapore Telecom (SingTel) was scheduled to introduce its latest Inmarsat Marine satellite communications services - the InTouch Card, MPLUS Marine Satellite Phone and Inmarsat- C/CPLUS — at Boat Asia '98. These services are designed for small and private ship owners who rely on radio and cellular phone services for communications to and from vessels. By using the latest technology, these new satellite services reportedly offer enhanced security by incorporating encryption of information trans- mitted over the satellite link. Circle 7 on Reader Service Card MTN Provides Telecommunications Service To Princess Cruises ICG Satellite Services, Inc. subsidiary Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Princess Cruises to provide the communications for the cruise line's fleet, including the new Grand Princess, the largest cruise ship in the world. Grand Princess fea- tures MTN C-Band communications equip- ment, as well as live video broadcast capability. "We chose to expand our relationship with MTN because .... Grand Princess requires advanced communications technology. The MTN system meets both our technological requirements today, as well as our anticipated requirements as we grow and demand more voice, data and video broadcast capabilities," said Rick James, senior vice president of Sales and Corporate Relations, Princess Cruises. Circle 8 on Reader Service Card BOATRACS Offers Two-Way Satellite Communications BOATRACS offers a two-way, satellite-based data communications and positioning system which reportedly allows users to reach vessels hundreds of miles away at all times. Designed and manufactured by wireless communications provider QUALCOMM, the BOATRACS system provides software for use both on vessels and onshore. Message composi- tion, automatic message forwarding and retrieval and fast access to message and position history information are sup- ported by the office software, QTRACS. Circle 9 on Reader Service Card cross licenses for their respective patents relat- ing to global telecommunications systems. In addition, TRW will receive certain distribution rights in the U.S. for ICO products and ser- vices. These agreements will reportedly allow for a merging of both companies in implement- ing a medium-earth-orbit satellite system. Circle 11 on Reader Service Card Station 12 Station 12 satellite telecommunica- tions network utilizes a series of satel- lites which allow customers to transmit data, voice, fax and telex through a series of different services, specifically designed for maritime application and substantial data. Services available from Station 12 include Inmarsat-A, B, C, M and mini-M. Circle 10 on Reader Service Card TRW Acquires ICO Shares TRW Inc. has acquired an equity interest in ICO Global Communications, under which TRW received 1.5 million ICO shares, or approximately seven per- cent of ICO's current outstanding shares, with a face value of $150 million. The two companies will grant each other Inmarsat Sets Sights On Exploring New Territory Inmarsat is reportedly ready to seek strategic commercial investors before seek- ing a flotation. Director General Warren Grace said that the current investors, comprising one communications company from each of Inmarsat's 81 member states, will have the ability to sell stakes to out- side investors in the period between setting up a commercial structure at the beginning of 1999 and flotation two years later. Inmarsat reportedly wants to develop the range of its communications systems, particularly the Horizons project for high speed data transmission to handheld per- sonal computers. Strategic investors could come from the companies bidding to devel- op space technology for the $2 billion pro- ject due to be operational by 2002. It will provide data at rates of 144KB/ second to lap top PCs and video conferencing; file downloading and Internet connections will be possible in remote areas. According to Mr. Grace, there will be a 15 percent ceiling on share holdings and an intergovernmental organization will remain at the center to prevent the articles of the company being changed. Inmarsat will continue to provide global satellite dis- tress messaging services to the maritime and aviation industries and to relief orga- nizations working in inaccessible regions, he said. Inmarsat's existing signatory com- panies will become shareholders in the new company on levels equivalent to their exist- ing investments. They will be able to trade shares among themselves for a year before Inmarsat becomes able to introduce strate- gic investors. The U.S., which holds a 22 percent stake in Inmarsat and whose sig- natory representative is Comsat Mobile Communications, is understood to have been unhappy about the commercial advantages the body may have been able to take in the past. But Mr. Grace is confi- dent that the new structure would over- come concerns. Investment bank SBC Warburg Dillon Read has been appointed to advise on the IPO. 38 SAILOR SALES AND SERVICE AGENTS ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS) Radio-Holland Caribbean N.V. Curacao N.A. Phone: ,599 94 612577 • Fax: ,599 94 612723 ARGENTINA Oton R. Klein S.A. Buenos Aires Phone: +541 760 0202 Fax: ,541 760 6389 AUSTRALIA Rubin Marine - Arlarmon NSW Phone: +61 2 94392333 - Fax: +61 2 94392278 a.m.i. sales O'Connor, Western Australia Phone: +61 89 337 3266 • Fax: +61 89 314 2929 BAHRAIN Aeradio Technical Services Mina Salman Port Phone: +973 727790 Fax: +973 727811 BANGLADESH Graphics Communications Ltd. Dhaka Phone: +880 2 8922440 Fax: +880 2 883627 BELGIUM Antwerp Marine Radio Company N.V. Antwerp Phone: +32 3 202 0499 Fax: +32 3 202 0493 BRAZIL O.L. Naval Ltda. Rio de Janeiro Phone: +55 21 509 8667 Fax: +55 21 242 7934 BULGARIA International Marine Technologies Ltd. Rousse Phone: +359 82 228216 Fax: +359 82 279115 CANADA Radio Holland (Canada) Ltd.. North Vancouver Phone: +1604 293 2900 Fax: +1604 293 2930 CHILE Serprotec LTDA Valparadiso (Deep Sea) Phone: +56 32 232780 Fax: +56 32 212215 Simrad Chile • Santiago (Fishing) Phone: +56 2 235 1068 Fax: +56 2 235 8732 CROATIA BELAM-Zastupstvo i Servis Rijeka Phone: +385 51 672343 Fax: +385 51 672179 CYPRUS A. P. Hadjipieros Ltd. - Limassol Phone: +357 5 345972 Fax: +357 5 345973 ECUADOR Nautical del Ecuador Manta Phone: +593 5 628900 • Fax: +593 5 628910 EGYPT Suez Electronics Free Zone S.A.E.( Alexandria Phone: +20 3 4806899 Fax: +20 3 48041% Suez Electronics Engineering & Trading Ltd. - Cairo Phone: +20 2 2742911 • Fax: +20 2 2745219 ESTONIA A/SRSTA Tallinn Phone: +372 6 312082 • Fax: +372 6 312082 FAROE ISLANDS S.P. Radio ATS Denmark Phone: +45 98180999 Fax: +45 98186717 (tor further information) FINLAND ASPO Systems OyEspoo Phone: +358 9 422155 Fax: +358 9 422908 Navidec Oy Helsinki Phone: +358 9 7001 7780 Fax: +358 9179 830 FRANCE Geolink - Roguevaire Phone: +33 4 42 32 99 00 Fax: +33 4 42 32 94 95 SDM Electronigue • Sartrouville Cedex Phone: +33 1 39146833 Fax: +331 39133022 GERMANY Elna GmbH Rellingen/Hamburg Phone: +494101 30100 Fax: +494101 301214 GIBRALTAR Electro Med Marina 8ay Phone: +350 77077 Fax: +350 72051 GREECE Marac Electronics S.A. Perama - Piraeus Phone:+30 1 43 1 4361 Fax:+301 43 14234 GREENLAND S.P. Radio A/S Denmark Phone: +45 98180999 Fax: +45 98186717 (tor further information) HOLLAND Radio-Holland Marine B.V. • Rotterdam Phone:+31 104283344 Fax:+31 104281498 Sailtron B.V. - Utrecht Phone: +31 30 2944741 Fax: +31 30 2937642 HONG KONG Radio Holland Group Kwai Chung N T. Phone: +852 24239007 Fax: +852 24805898 Hoi Tung Communication & Navigation Co. Ltd Phone: +852 25421262 Fax: +852 25431137 ICELAND Radiomidun Ltd. Reykjavik Phone:+354511 1010 Fax: +354511 1020 INDIA Elcome Marine Services Pvt. Ltd. • New Bombay Phone: +91 22 763 23 48 • Fax: +91 22 763 23 51 INDONESIA PT Panorama Timur Jaya • Jakarta Phone: +62 21 475 6788 Fax: +62 21 4751688 IRAN Kaman Hormozgan Marine Engineering - Tehran Phone: +98 21 222 8020 Fax: +98 21 222 4502 ISRAEL Alhout-Yam Ltd. • Haifa Phone: +972 4 86 20804 Fax: +972 4 8627404 ITALY Compagnia Generale Telemar Roma Phone: +39 6 3221800 Fax: +39 6 3240148 Generalmare est S.R.I. -Chiavari Phone: +39 185 32 33 56 Fax: +39185 32 27 31 IVORY COAST Optim Afrique - Abidjan Phone: +225 251843 Fax: +225 257937 Nautical Afrique . Abidjan Phone: +225 250136 • Fax: +225 250137 JAPAN Kaigai Gijyutsu K.K. Yokohama Phone: +81 45 6647318 Fax: +81 45 6647320 KOREA Samyang Radio Co. Ltd. • Pusan Phone: +8251413 5000 Fax: +82 51 413 5002 KUWAIT Elcome International. Safat Phone: +965 2406822 Fax: +965 2406833 Commercial Co-Ordination Centre W.L.L. Safat Phone: +965 2462347 Fax: +965 2454350 LATVIA/LITHUANIA Transas Baltia Riga Phone: +371 7286585 - Fax: +371 7821202 MALTA Medcomms Ltd. - Gzira Phone: +356335521 Fax: +356310820 MEXICO Nautica, S.A. de C.V. • Mexico D.F. Phone: +52 5 6519740 Fax: +52 5 6512825 MOROCCO Soremar Casablanca Phone: +212 2 442802 Fax: +212 2 305385 NEW ZEALAND Electronic Navigation Ltd. • Auckland Phone: +64 9 3735595 Fax: +64 9 3795655 Wrights Ltd. Wellington Phone: +64 4 568 8975 Fax: +64 4 568 8361 NIGERIA Netarcomms Nigeria Ltd.. Lagos State Phone: +234 1 871662 Fax: +234 1 264 6083 NORWAY AEG Norge A/S-Oslo Phone: +47 22 89 78 00 Fax: +47 22 89 78 04 PAKISTAN International Aeradio Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi Phone: +92 21 5837800 Fax: +92 21 5870331 PANAMA Proveedora Tecnica, S.A. Panama Phone: +507 227 3533 Fax: +507 2271053 PHILIPPINES Radio Holland B.V. (Philippines) Inc. - Manila Phone: +63 2 527 5865 - Fax: +63 2 527 5866 POLAND EPA Ltd. • Szczecin Phone: +48 914 874 885 Fax: +48 914 875 014 PORTUGAL Nautel - Electronica Maritima. Lda. • Lisbon Phone: +351 1 39 20 940 Fax: +351 1 39 20 949 DATAR Eastern Technical Services Co. Doha Phone: +974 477412 Fax: +974 478282 RUMANIA Imsat Maritime SA Constanta Constanta Phone: +4041 639038 Fax: +40 41 674356 RUSSIA Transas Marine Ltd. • St. Petersburg Phone: +7812 567 2090 Fax: +7 812 5671901 Moretron Ltd. Murmansk Phone: +47 8510144 Fax: +478510144 SAUDI ARABIA Key Communication Development Ltd. • Dammam Phone: +966 3 8336940 Fax: +966 3 8330728 SENEGAL Optim Senegal • Dakar Phone: +221 8234930 Fax: +221 8229676 SINGAPORE Radio-Holland BV Singapore Phone: +65 8622218 Fax: +65 8622430 SOUTH AFRICA Cape Maritime Electronics (Pty.) Ltd. Cape Town Phone: +27 21 551 3204 Fax: +27 21 551 3206 Radio Holland Group Paarden Eiland (Cape Town) Phone: +27 21 511 0864 Fax: +27 21 511 7577 SPAIN Nautical. San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid) Phone: +34 I 6549411 • Fax: +34 1 6549600 SWEDEN Ring Marine Communication AB • Askim/Goteborg Phone: +46 31 668400 • Fax: +46 31 683660 Racal Svenska AB Vastra Frolunda (Goteborg) Phone: +4631 292100 • Fax: +46 31 292109 TAIWAN R.O.C. Unimax Electric & Co.. Ltd. Kaohsiung Phone: +886 7 815 9775 Fax: +886 7 815 1 775 TUNISIA Alcatel Tunisie - Tunis Cedex Phone: +2161 717177 Fax: +216 1 719888 TURKEY Elektro-Deniz Ltd. - Istanbul Phone: +90 216 392 77 29 Fax: +90 216 392 8018 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Elcome International L.L.C. Dubai Phone: +971 4 342333 Fax: +971 4 342465 UNITED KINGDOM Ships Electronic Services Ltd. - Rochester (Kent) Phone: +44 1634 295500 Fax: +44 1634 295536 URUGUAY Electromaritima Uruguaya Ltda. • Montevideo Phone: +598 2 924 77 89 Fax: +598 2 924 71 38 USA Radio-Holland USA, B.V. - Houston (Texas) Phone: +1 713 943 3325 Fax: +1 713 943 3802 Circle 290 on Reader Service Card