Vizada and Inmarsat have introduced two new lower Streaming IP service rates on FleetBroadband, which became effective as of October 1st, 2009. These lower rates are ideal for customers who need smaller amounts of bandwidth at their disposal, and designed to support Voice over IP (VoIP) applications for low-cost voice calling. The two new, separately billed streaming classes are: 8 kbps 16 kbps.

This service of 8 and 16 kbps Streaming IP is designed for FleetBroadband Classes 8 & 9 (FB250 and FB500) user terminals only. The service will be available automatically to all existing SIM cards where the streaming rate is 16 kbps or greater. New SIM card activations will be able to select these services via a dropdown box in The Source as of October 1st, when the service is commercially introduced by Inmarsat. Vizada has released new rates for these two streaming services, so Vizada Service Providers are requested to contact your Vizada Key Account Manager for pricing details.

The new streaming services will be billed per minute for 8 kbps increments, but the uplink/downlink can be selected in 1 kbps granularity up to 64 kbps. Selection of the 8 and 16 kbps services are done via AT commands. Other services from the same terminal are available while running the 8 kbps or 16 kbps streaming. The 8 or 16 kbps streaming rate services are available in the entire I-4 constellation footprint down to 5 degree elevation angle, according to the standard performance availability for FleetBroadband.