The pace of change within the maritime satellite sector has seemed especially frenetic during the past couple of years, but only because seaborne platform communications networks have had a lot of catching up to do with their counterparts on land. The maritime sector has shifted from being more or less content with narrow-band channels for its distress and operational systems and simple voice, fax and data communications, to being increasingly absorbed by the next riot-so-new thing: the prospect of cheap and plentiful high-speed broadband.
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