Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company News

Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW), a company delivering GSM communication capability for the merchant maritime sector, has completed full FleetBroadband (“FBB”) testing. The FBB service is now fully operational and commercially available to existing and potential BOW customers. This system was designed to allow officers and crew to make and receive voice calls, send and receive text messages and emails and access the internet. BOW also announces that Smart Communications, Inc., a wholly owned mobile subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., and Altobridge Limited will invest a further $7.5 million into BOW to accelerate the rapid introduction of FleetBroadband and next generation maritime communication services.

market leader ship management. BSM has a managed fleet of more than 600 vessels. BSMD (Hamburg) will initially install BOW’s GSM solution on their vessel CAP BRETON (ex. Christiane Schulte). voice calls and send & receive SMS messages using their existing mobile phones. offers on-board e-mail capability and a global roaming service. vessels using their existing handset and SIM card. preparation on the part of the user. Schulte Shipmanagement as a customer of Blue Ocean Wireless. significant customer milestone for the Blue Ocean Wireless team. year ago.