Ericsson Mobile Satellite Services

Meeting market needs

To continue growing their business, operators are increasingly seeking ways of providing cost-effective mobile services to areas that do not have coverage today.

At the same time, providing reliable access in remote areas makes it possible to tap into high-ARPU niche markets, such as the oil and gas, media, maritime, forestry, mining and heavy construction industries.

With Mobile Satellite Service, you can expand the coverage area of your network, both nationally and internationally, while addressing premium-rate business opportunities.

Mobile Satellite Service is a satellite-based communication system that offers services commonly available in a terrestrial mobile network (GSM, GPRS, WCDMA or LTE). The solution uses a satellite to provide service across a wide area and purpose-specific terminals to communicate directly with the satellite.

Offering summary

The Mobile Satellite Service solution utilizes the best available satellite technology for coverage and our core radio network technology for interworking with terrestrial networks.

The solution combines a broad range of standards-based, off-the-shelf products tailored to meet specific business needs. It also includes an extensive service offering with program management, system engineering, solution design, network integration, deployment and rollout.

This standards-based, end-to-end offering addresses operator needs for:

• Core network solutions for circuit, packet and IP Multimedia Services (IMS)
• Data networking
• Video services
• Business support systems and convergent charging solutions
• Multi-media applications and value-added services such as messaging, presence and location-based services (LBS)
• Regulatory solutions
• Network management systems.

Complete offering

The Mobile Satellite Services solution utilizes our core network infrastructure to ensure a complete end-to-end offering.

With our solution, you can:

• Provide seamless roaming between Mobile Satellite Service networks and terrestrial mobile 3GPP networks, and interoperability with PSTN
• Provide Mobile Satellite Service as an extension of your mobile network.
• This combination also makes our solution an ideal choice for offering terrestrial Complementary Ground Component (CGC) networks with Mobile Satellite Services.

Benefits

Our offering provides an easy, reduced-risk path when deploying Mobile Satellite Services to complement mobile services where there is no terrestrial coverage or to fill coverage gaps in existing mobile networks.

The combination of off-the-shelf, standards-based products and our extensive experience in engineering and solution deployment supports customized and cost-effective solutions that can be rolled out rapidly to meet any business need.

By partnering with us, you gain access to a worldwide network of technical and business experts in both mobile communications and satellite technologies. Our turnkey solutions are being used to build today's most successful Mobile Satellite Services networks.