{"id":84419,"date":"2011-08-10T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-introduces-free-fleetbroadband-voice-distress-service\/"},"modified":"2011-08-10T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:37:10","slug":"inmarsat-introduces-free-fleetbroadband-voice-distress-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-introduces-free-fleetbroadband-voice-distress-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat Introduces Free FleetBroadband Voice Distress Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-09-11] <b>Inmarsat<\/b> has rolled out a free voice distress service on FleetBroadband to help users in case of emergency, the mobile satellite operator announced Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Built with support from the <b>European Space Agency<\/b> and the <b>U.K. Technology Strategy Board<\/b>, the voice distress service aims to ensure that all non-priority telephone calls underway on a vessel\u2019s FleetBroadband are interrupted during an emergency while connecting the distress caller directly to a Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC).<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The service also sends an immediate email to the MRCC and network controllers to alert them to a call, providing additional data such as vessel name, identification and position. Inmarsat said that manufacturer <b>Thrane &amp; Thrane<\/b> would support the service with its Sailor 3771 alarm panel, with other terminal manufacturers expected to follow soon.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis is a first for FleetBroadband, and demonstrates our on-going commitment to providing essential safety and distress services for seafarers,\u201d Inmarsat Head of Maritime Safety Peter Blackhurst said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-09-11] Inmarsat has rolled out a free voice distress service on FleetBroadband to help users in case of emergency, the mobile satellite operator announced Aug. 8. &nbsp;&nbsp; Built with support from the European Space Agency and the U.K. Technology Strategy Board, the voice distress service aims to ensure that all non-priority telephone calls underway on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-84419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84419"}],"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=84419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}