Satamatics Connects 100,000th Satellite-tracking Subscriber to its Inmarsat D+ network

TEWKESBURY, UK, Oct. 26, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Satamatics, a provider of satellite-telematics, asset tracking and monitoring services, has announced it has connected it's 100,000th subscriber, through it's distribution  partner, Track 24. It said the milestone illustrates a 43 percent annual increase in new activations and a 47 percent increase in network airtime traffic.

Tom Tipple, VP Business Development for Satamatics, said the 100,000 users the company’s network is an important milestone for Satamatics as it confirms that the market for its services is growing and that our enhanced satellite tracking technology is the preferred choice for reliability, performance and cost.

“We are working hard to maintain and accelerate the growth and the team is understandably proud of the progress. Our success is down to the fact that we can offer a unique and flexible service and our customers know that they can rely on us to provide the data they need wherever they are in the world, and at any time,” he said.

The 100,000th Satamatics user, Track 24 is a prime example of the industry-segments now applying satellite tracking and telemetry to important commercial applications. Satamatics said it is seeing substantial increases from transport, logistics, military and defence, security and remote asset monitoring applications mainly in South America, Middle East and the Far East.

Tim Grant, chief executive officer of Track 24, which provides worldwide tracking, monitoring and crisis management solutions, said, their customers include security, defence, oil & gas, mining, construction and engineering businesses worldwide and although satellite-tracking technology is certainly more mainstream in 2006, there are still huge variations in the reliability of solutions. We simply cannot deploy solutions that might not work".

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