GMPCS placed an order for 1,000 personal broadband satellite terminals for use on Inmarsat‘s BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) service with Nera SatCom. GMPCS will use the Nera WorldPro 1000 terminal, which will enable customers of GMPCS to connect to Inmarsat’s BGAN service at speeds of up to 384 kbps from 85 percent of the world’s land mass. GMPCS is a full service provider of global mobile personal communications via satellite.

The service is scheduled for availability from the fourth quarter of 2005 and will enable users to access both voice and data communications simultaneously from a single satellite terminal. Stig-Are Mogstad, president of Nera SatCom described the deal as a “positive signal of the market’s belief in the uptake of the BGAN service.”