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Satellite airtime

Airtime built around your operation, not around one operator’s plan sheet.

We buy capacity independently across multiple satellite operators and network partners, then design a service around your vessels, your routes and your usage. No fixed tiers you have to bend your operation to fit. No single portfolio limiting what you can be offered.

One working day

quote turnaround

Multi-orbit

GEO · LEO · L-band

One supplier

whole stack, one bill

Where the big providers stop, we start

Independent by design

The large service providers sell from a fixed plan sheet. It’s simple to buy, and that’s the appeal, because nobody gets criticised for choosing the obvious name. But rigid plans mean you pay for what’s in the package rather than what your fleet actually uses.

We work the other way round. We’re not tied to one operator’s capacity, so we source what suits your trading area and commercial requirement, and pass on the difference.

Independent sourcing

Multiple operators and partners, selected per route, not per portfolio.

Commercially flexible

Plan structure, commitment and terms built around your operation.

Usually lower cost

For the same or better service profile.

One supplier, whole stack

Hardware, installation, spares, airtime and support from one house.

Multi-orbit, one managed service

Every orbit, one connection

Coverage layers do different jobs. We combine them into a single managed connection and handle the routing between them.

Not sure which band suits your route? Our guide to choosing a satellite frequency band compares C, Ku, Ka and L.

GEO VSAT

Stable, proven, wide regional beams. The backbone for sustained operational and crew traffic. Ku- and Ka-band via our long-standing operator relationships.

LEO

Low latency and high throughput for crew internet, video calls, cloud applications and VoIP.

L-band

Small antenna, weather-resistant signal. Safety, tracking and IoT traffic that must never drop.

Automatic failover

Failover is not a manual process. Every service ships with a policy-based router, Peplink where you specify it and MikroTik where the choice is ours, that selects the best available path in real time and moves traffic across without intervention on the bridge.

By choice

We carry a bespoke number of vessels, by choice. You’re not an account number in a portfolio of thousands. You’re a relationship, and a vessel we take pride in keeping connected.

It shows in how long our clients stay. Several have been with us for over a decade.

Cruise and offshore

Who we’re built for

High vessel counts, high user counts, demanding uptime requirements and traffic profiles that change by season, by charter and by field.

We size capacity to real demand, structure contracts around operational reality, and support the network with engineers who know the hardware because we supplied and installed it.

Single small vessels aren’t our focus. Complex fleets are.

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Getting a quote

Tell us the vessels, the trading areas and roughly what the network has to carry. We’ll design the service and come back with pricing within one working day. Airtime is quoted per operation. No published rate card, because no two fleets need the same thing.

For indicative budgets before you get in touch, see what maritime internet costs across the main options.