Classic services

Coverage

The map below depicts coverage following completion of the satellite repositioning process. 

In the Atlantic Ocean Region-West (AOR-W), Classic services were delivered via the I-4 satellite. Now  the I-4 satellite over the Americas is activated, Classic services traffic in AOR-W has been transferred back to an I-3 satellite.

As a result, there is reduced spot beam coverage in AOR-W, but Inmarsat will make best commercial efforts to increase the I-3 spot beam coverage so that it exceeds the original I-3 coverage.

There is reduced spot beam coverage for the following services:

Aero I - voice, fax, 4.8kbps data

Aero Mini M - voice, fax, 2.4kbps data

However, after the repositioning of the I-4 satellites is complete, Inmarsat currently plans to make our Aero H+ (voice and data) and Aero I (data) available over the repositioned I-4 constellation.

The provision of these services over the combined I-4 and I-3 constellations will result, from mid-2009, in the creation of seven satellite regions providing Aero safety services around the world.

This will enable access to SwiftBroadband and Aero safety services via one antenna per aircraft.