Mobile Satellite Industry News

Dear Customer,

Please be advised that as part of its satellite repositioning programme Inmarsat plans to restore all broadband services on the Inmarsat-4 (I-4) F2 satellite from 16:00 UTC on Friday, 6 February.

This is a change to the previously published schedule for users of the following services affected by the current outage on the I-4 F2:

·        BGAN - in Iceland, Ireland and parts of West Africa, the UK and Greenland

·        FleetBroadband – in a narrow strip of the east Atlantic Ocean

·        SwiftBroadband – in a narrow strip of the east Atlantic Ocean.

Users in the above outage areas will have service restored at the same time as BGAN, FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband traffic in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is transferred from the I-4 F1 to I-4 F2 satellite, currently scheduled to begin at 16:00 UTC on 6 February.

In a further change to the schedule, Inmarsat satellite phone services (SPS), including IsatPhone, LandPhone and FleetPhone, will  transfer from the I-4 F1 to the I-4 F2 satellite at the earlier time of 08:00 UTC on 6 February.

Distribution partners and service providers are requested to update their websites and other repositioning documentation, and where possible to contact end-users likely to be affected by these activities.

You are reminded that the second and final outage, in parts of Asia-Pacific, caused by the repositioning of the I-4 F1 satellite to 143.5 degrees East, will also begin on 6 February, starting with SPS from 08:00 UTC and broadband services from 16:00 UTC.

Many thanks

Kind regards