<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 1 Jun 2005, at 15:41, Tethys wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Does anyone have experience of satellite net access in the UK? Having</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">spent the week in the wilds of Santa Pod, there are no fixed phone</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">lines, and mobile coverage is patchy at best, so net access was tricky.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Inmarsat is your friend for this - although not cheap.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>R-BGAN (<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E63" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Regional Broadband Global Area Network)</SPAN></FONT> is the service you're most likely to want - it's 144kbps, same as full ISDN.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have a look at <A href="http://www.inmarsat.com">www.inmarsat.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>M@t :o)</DIV></BODY></HTML>