Low Cost Telephony and Mobile Broadband – via Satellite
Airtime is a subscription for mobile voice and broadband data communication via satellite offering low cost worldwide coverage in a user-friendly package. No other solution matches Airtime and a Thrane & Thrane EXPLORER terminal in terms of portability, reliability, ease of use – and seamless coverage. Also, with Airtime, the price is fixed in order for you to avoid the costly roaming of cellular telephony.
Office Mobility for All
With an Airtime subscription and an EXPLORER terminal from Thrane & Thrane you can set up and shut down a fully functional broadband mobile office in a matter of minutes – in your hotel, on camp sites, on road sides, in jungles and on deserted islands. You can connect via laptop to your corporate network at speeds up to half a megabit per second – 492 kbps – from any corner of the world. You can remotely access all of your desktop applications including e-mail and the www, and make telephone calls for less than US $ 1 per minute. In short Airtime is guaranteed world access for you when working or travelling in locations with unreliable or non-existent terrestrial telecoms networks.
The Broadband Global Area Network MAKES IT WORK
Global broadband coverage and low cost telephony is available with Airtime because the subscription utilizes satellites in stead of terrestrial masts. The service is called Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), which is the world's first voice and broadband data mobile communications service accessible from anywhere in the world – by means of the Inmarsat satellite system. BGAN and Airtime together extend the boundaries of the broadband mobile office – greatly surpassing 3G cellular services.
EXPLORER Terminals
With Airtime, you need a small, lightweight Thrane & Thrane EXPLORER satellite terminal to access the satellite network to surf the web and talk on the phone. Such a terminal is about the size of a laptop PC, easy to carry, quick to set up and simple to use. The EXPLORER comes in 4 different models taking into account a wide variety of user requirements. The smallest BGAN terminal weighs less than one kilo.