Remote communications

Paul,
I think it will all come down to pricing of the calls and any access fees. They appear to be a small company so that may help keep the costs down.

Have a good one.

John,
can you tell us more, you say they use the same satellites as optus and they seem to be targeting the data market. I am not a comms person, so could tell me how data and phones are different.

I would appreciate it.

Sure Rockape, data can be any communication between one computer and another, the most obvious being broadband internet services, but it could also be video conferencing between a remote mining company and its headquarters, etc. Strictly speaking a phone also sends voice as "data" since any phone now is digital based, but satellite phones themselves don't usually have high enough data speeds for decent internet access, etc. Most of the communications using satellite is data transfer of one type or another, rather than phone calls.
There was a brief segment here on Stateline tonight about Inigo, actually. It didn't really add anything more than was in your link above, but there was the suggestion that if they were popular then it could lead to Telstra and Optus also lowering their satellite access prices. Lot of ifs in that though!
(Optus is just the Aust. agent for Thuraya as far as their satellite phones go).

Cheers, John

Thanks John