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KVH Industries posts buoyant revenues on jam-proof battlefield navigation demand
KVH Industries, the U.S. maritime satellite-connectivity specialist, expects clear sailing ahead after growing quarterly revenues despite shaky seas for cruise ships.

Inmarsat preps new maritime product to fend off KVH competition
Rupert Pearce, Inmarsat’s CEO, said Nov. 8 that the company is taking steps to retain customers in its largest market segment, having identified broadband for social use among crews as the missing component of Inmarsat’s maritime service offering.

Inmarsat battles to maintain leadership in connecting the high seas
Inmarsat’s largest market — connecting ships at sea — is becoming increasingly competitive.

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5 Markets | KVH turns to Intelsat EpicNG to speed up maritime broadband service
KVH Industries, a mobile satellite communications equipment and service provider, is preparing to offer broadband in early 2018 to commercial and private maritime customers through satellite fleet operator Intelsat’s EpicNG constellation.

KVH launching HTS upgrade this year, preps for OneWeb
Maritime satellite services and hardware provider KVH is kicking off an upgrade to mix high-throughput capacity from geostationary and low Earth orbit satellites into its network, CEO Martin Kits van Heyningen said Jan. 10.

KVH banking on capacity glut to halve its bandwidth costs
Maritime satellite communications hardware and services provider KVH is seeking to reduce the amount it pays for future satellite capacity by 50 percent, banking on a market oversupply to work to it advantage.