AST is pleased to announce that February 15th 2012 will see the scheduled launch of Inmarsat’s new BGAN M2M service.

This exciting new IP data service utilises the Hughes 9502 terminal to deliver a low cost solution specifically designed for remote machine to machine applications. AST is currently undertaking Beta testing of the service in South Africa and is receiving positive feedback as to its capabilities and reliability.

Designed to meet the needs of customers in remote geographic locations, the service is ideally suited to market sectors such as; retail banking (remote POS machines), oil & gas, utilities & mining.

The service is optimised to support applications sending from 1 MB to 50 MB per terminal per month and offers an economical, low latency solution for remote asset monitoring, data reporting, SCADA and smart metering requirements, promising to provide a global solution to the growing machine to machine market.

As an existing and experienced BGAN Distribution Partner, AST will be able to supply and provision the BGAN M2M service from launch.

Contact us for further details.