Backgrounder: Inmarsat plc
                 English.news.cn | 2014-03-25 09:03:58 | Editor: Fu Peng

UK-LONDON-INMARSAT-MISSING MALAYSIAN PLANE

Photo taken on March 24, 2014 shows the building of British satellite company Inmarsat in London, Britain. The British Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) on Monday confirmed it had worked with Inmarsat to provide information that helped Malaysian authorities confirm that missing Malaysian Airways flight MH370 had ended in the southern Indian Ocean. (Xinhua/Wang Lili)

BEIJING, March. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications company, offers global, mobile services.

It provides telephone and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate to ground stations through eleven geostationary telecommunications satellites.

Inmarsat's network provides communications services to a range of governments, aid agencies, media outlets and businesses with a need to communicate in remote regions or where there is no reliable terrestrial network.

The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index as of December 2011.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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