{"id":68302,"date":"2017-05-05T00:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-sees-strong-growth-in-government-aviation-in-q1-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:59:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:59:32","slug":"inmarsat-sees-strong-growth-in-government-aviation-in-q1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-sees-strong-growth-in-government-aviation-in-q1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat Sees Strong Growth in Government, Aviation in Q1 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inmarsat <\/strong>reported a solid performance in the first quarter of 2017 with an 11 percent increase in total revenue to $332.2 million from the same period last year. The company\u2019s government and aviation divisions saw particularly strong growth, increasing 25 percent to $86 million and 41 percent to $44.2 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to Inmarsat, the adoption of its GX platform gained further traction across its government customer base, including a major take-or-pay contract with its partner <strong>Boeing<\/strong>. Initial revenue generation from the <strong>U.S. Navy\u2019s<\/strong> Commercial Broadband Satellite Program Satellite Services Contract (CSSC), won in 2016, also supported the division\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>On the aviation side, much of the revenue growth came from Inmarsat\u2019s SwiftBroadband and Classic Aero L-band products, which ended the period with more than 16,500 connected terminals. Inmarsat also stated it made good progress on-boarding customers to GX, including <strong>Deutsche Lufthansa Group<\/strong>, and has recently signed contracts for In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) services for more than 950 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat reiterated its guidance disclosed in March of 2017 revenue of $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmarsat reported a solid performance in the first quarter of 2017 with an 11 percent increase in total revenue to $332.2 million from the same period last year. The company\u2019s government and aviation divisions saw particularly strong growth, increasing 25 percent to $86 million and 41 percent to $44.2 million respectively. According to Inmarsat, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}