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As maritime markets continue to recover and interest and investment in advanced communication systems picks up steam, Tore Morten Olsen, Head of Maritime Services at Astrium Services, says the focus now shifts now from simple connectivity to providing specific business solutions at sea. While the evolution of communications at sea has had its fair share of starts and stops, largely driven by overriding economic conditions of the day as well as the stale notion that communications costs are an expense versus an investment…

Global Satellite Engineering (GSE) announced that GSatTrack.com, its online satellite and GSM tracking and mapping portal, which has been certified to support the new Iridium Extreme phone. GSatTrack.com enables organizations to merge together all types of tracking equipment, including the Iridium Extreme, into one easy to use multilingual platform. The new Iridium Extreme satellite phone is the most rugged handset on the market, and is the smallest and lightest model from Iridium. It meets Military Standard 810F for durability and features the first dedicated, two-way emergency SOS button on a satellite phone. GSatTrack.com leverages Iridium Extreme’s fully integrated GPS and location-based technology…