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Mia Breeze's avatar

LOVE your work Agent!!!!

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Frances Leader's avatar

In 1988/9 I worked for Dr Elisabeth Muller, the inventor of Inmarsat (International Maritime Satellite). I was her speech-writer and PA. We were selling the information gathered from every Lloyds Agent located at all airports and shipping ports worldwide. Our customers were governments and Agencies like the CIA. We communicated via an early form of email as she jetted around the world selling the system. Obviously, being based in an office in the City of London, I never actually saw the satellite which relayed all the communications between Lloyds Agents and our communications hub in London. It never crossed my mind to doubt the existence of the thing. Nowadays there are several Inmarsat satellites operating in orbit and they provide the world's government (plus the exceedingly wealthy) with an alternative and exclusive, very expensive internet. They are proud to provide telecoms and internet to superyachts and private aircraft. They are also advertising that they are taking part in the Internet of Things. There is some skulduggery going on, it is unclear who owns what now..... some takeovers and name changes having occurred.

Anyway, for your future investigations, here is a link to explore: https://www.inmarsat.com/en/index.html

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