This includes prepaid cards for voice calls, email and web browsing, messaging services for email and SMS, cost control services such as web portals to monitor communications traffic and credit in real time, as well as set limits and alerts on traffic, and specific calling numbers to reduce the cost of calling a mobile satellite terminal from a fixed line. These solutions and applications can be used over any mobile satellite terminal, including Inmarsat BGAN and ThurayaIP data services, and Thuraya and Iridium handsets, used on a regular basis by TSF staff during crisis missions.
TSF used Vizada’s mobile satellite services on 14 separate occasions in 2009, notably in Haiti in January 2010 where representatives set up a telecoms center for Haitians to call family and friends abroad, and to improve coordination on the ground between NGOs workers. In addition to TSF, Vizada supplies mobile satellite services to a number of non-governmental organisations and first responders — including Médecins sans Frontières, International Red Cross, United Nations organisations, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Vizada has a dedicated team and offering in place to cater for these organisations’ specific requirements.