Until June 30, CGNET will be offering a USD 1000 usage credit with some Satellite Traveler’s Access Service (Sat TAS) plans. This could pay for a year’s service on the Anytime Plan, described below.
Sat TAS is CGNET’s highly mobile satellite communications service, employing portable two-way terminals weighing as little as 2.2 pounds with dimensions of 7.9”x5.5”x1.6”. The devices can run off their own battery, a car battery or external AC power. It is ideal for use in areas far from terrestrial telecommunications or power, and its mode of use is the same worldwide. The silver object on the table in the picture is a BGAN satellite terminal.
Sat TAS is based on Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, which currently covers about 85 percent of the world’s land mass. This makes it usable almost everywhere, except for polar areas, parts of Siberia and northern Japan, and some Pacific islands.
The service now offers both VoIP and switched voice, as well as data transmission at speeds up to 492 kbps. It is therefore competitive with sat phones, with hugely superior data transmission capabilities.
The user can communicate via switched voice and IP data simultaneously. Voice calls can be placed by plugging a standard PSTN phone into the terminal’s RJ-11 port, by Bluetooth, into ports on an Ethernet-connected laptop.
CGNET offers several service plans to fit a customer’s anticipated use and budget. Service usually involves a low monthly fee, plus usage rates based on the number of megabytes sent or received. Per-megabyte rates range from USD 4.00 to 6.99, depending on the plan.
The $1000 service credit applies to two plans, the Standard Plan and the Anytime Plan. The Standard Plan requires a one-year commitment, a $35 monthly fee and a $6.99 per megabyte charge. Customers pay only for megabytes used.
Switched voice charges are standard worldwide at USD .99 per minute to a wired telephone and 1.09 per minute to a mobile phone.
The Anytime Plan also requires a one-year commitment but there is NO MONTHLY FEE. Transmission costs $6.99 per megabyte, with a monthly minimum usage commitment of 10 megabytes. If the minimum 10 megabytes are not used in a month, however, they roll over for subsequent use. A year’s commitment, therefore, would be for a minimum of USD 838.80. In other words, the USD 1000 usage credit would cover the entire first year’s usage commitment, and then some.
Detailed information on all our pricing plans and available terminals is available at www.cgnet.com/SatTAS.htm.
Sat TAS is CGNET’s highly mobile satellite communications service, employing portable two-way terminals weighing as little as 2.2 pounds with dimensions of 7.9”x5.5”x1.6”. The devices can run off their own battery, a car battery or external AC power. It is ideal for use in areas far from terrestrial telecommunications or power, and its mode of use is the same worldwide. The silver object on the table in the picture is a BGAN satellite terminal.
Sat TAS is based on Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, which currently covers about 85 percent of the world’s land mass. This makes it usable almost everywhere, except for polar areas, parts of Siberia and northern Japan, and some Pacific islands.
The service now offers both VoIP and switched voice, as well as data transmission at speeds up to 492 kbps. It is therefore competitive with sat phones, with hugely superior data transmission capabilities.
The user can communicate via switched voice and IP data simultaneously. Voice calls can be placed by plugging a standard PSTN phone into the terminal’s RJ-11 port, by Bluetooth, into ports on an Ethernet-connected laptop.
CGNET offers several service plans to fit a customer’s anticipated use and budget. Service usually involves a low monthly fee, plus usage rates based on the number of megabytes sent or received. Per-megabyte rates range from USD 4.00 to 6.99, depending on the plan.
The $1000 service credit applies to two plans, the Standard Plan and the Anytime Plan. The Standard Plan requires a one-year commitment, a $35 monthly fee and a $6.99 per megabyte charge. Customers pay only for megabytes used.
Switched voice charges are standard worldwide at USD .99 per minute to a wired telephone and 1.09 per minute to a mobile phone.
The Anytime Plan also requires a one-year commitment but there is NO MONTHLY FEE. Transmission costs $6.99 per megabyte, with a monthly minimum usage commitment of 10 megabytes. If the minimum 10 megabytes are not used in a month, however, they roll over for subsequent use. A year’s commitment, therefore, would be for a minimum of USD 838.80. In other words, the USD 1000 usage credit would cover the entire first year’s usage commitment, and then some.Detailed information on all our pricing plans and available terminals is available at www.cgnet.com/SatTAS.htm.
