Inmarsat and Indium Consultants Phone In Sharply Different Opinions

摘要

Mobile satellite services providers Inmarsat and Iridium Communications, which by most counts occupy the top two slots in market share, have extended their rivalry to include dueling consultancy reports that reach sharply different conclusions about the quality of their competing services. In September, an Iridium-commissioned Frost & Sullivan report concluded that London-based Inmarsat, whose Isat-Phone had debuted on the market only weeks before, had not been able to provide regular handset reception in Alaska. In another jab, the Frost report concluded that the Inmarsat phone took much longer than Iridium's phone to boot up, find an available satellite and make itself ready for use.