Telenor launches new company

Marlink will act as a multi-supplier of mobile satellite airtime providing communication services from a number of suppliers, including but not limited to Telenor. Marlink will also provide traffic accounting services, hardware and value-added services.

“Marlink will be able to provide customers with flexible communication package solutions matching their specific needs and choices in this rapidly changing market. By operating under its own brand name, it will have a stronger position in the market,” said Tore Hilde, general manager of Telenor Satellite Services.

“In launching the new company, our focus is on increasing the portfolio of services available to our customers, as well as on becoming the interface between the maritime industry and the mobile satellite services industry,” says S¯ren Einsh¯j, Managing Director of Marlink.

Marlink brings together the retail arm of Telenor Satellite Services and SAIT Communications, one of the world’s largest accounting authorities, which Telenor acquired in 2001. The business currently serves around 8,000 vessels worldwide and had revenues in 2001 of nearly US$ 100 million, making it one of the world’s largest global mobile satellite service providers. It has offices in 10 key locations for the maritime market: Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Dubai, Hamburg, Houston, London, Oslo, Singapore and Tokyo.