Officials from Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) and Intelsat today said the two companies have signed a new five-year contract under which Intelsat will provide MTN with additional capacity to expand the range of satellite-based services MTN provides to its customers.

The added capacity will be provided by Intelsat on its IS-805, IS-905 and IS-906 satellites and will enable MTN to offer a comprehensive suite of onboard services such as AMT transactions, daily delivery of up to 150 newspapers, high-speed Internet access and cellular telephone services to passengers and crew members sailing in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.