Stratos Global, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced it has reached a milestone of 5,500 FleetBroadband activations. Stratos is the first Inmarsat Distribution Partner to reach this FleetBroadband sales milestone.

The announcement of this Stratos milestone coincides with Inmarsat reaching its sales plateau of 12,000 FleetBroadband activations worldwide.

Stratos milestone of 5,500 FleetBroadband activations encompasses all major geographic regions and vessel types, from customers including Wallem Shipmanagement, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, Varun Shipping Co., MISC Berhad, Albacora Group, MPC Steamship and the Royal Netherlands Navy. A significant portion of Stratos first 5,500 FleetBroadband activations were sold via Stratos Channel Partners.

As the worlds leading FleetBroadband distributor, Stratos understands the need for reliable maritime communications and the increasing demand for higher volumes of data to support critical applications and business communications onboard, along with the increasing need to support crew with Internet-based services.

To meet its customers demanding networking requirements, Stratos continues to develop innovative packages - including maritime hardware bundles and global fixed-fee broadband options up to 432kbps. Looking ahead with these developments, Stratos is perfectly positioned to expand its customers communications capabilities to take advantage of Inmarsats Global Xpress 50Mbps services which will be commercially available in 2014. Global Xpress, utilizing the Ka-band spectrum, will provide the maritime industry with the trusted high performance and reliability for which Inmarsat is renowned.

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FleetBroadband from Stratos - Coverage Maps
Following the successful launch of its third I-4 satellite on 18 August 2008, Inmarsat has repositioned the I-4 constellation in order to optimise the network and deliver global coverage.
The new global I-4 satellite regions are:
I-4 Americas - from 98 degrees West
I-4 EMEA - from 25 degrees East
I-4 Asia-Pacific - from 143.5 degrees East