Place calls to anyone, anywhere.
Whether at cruising altitude over the Atlantic or preparing for takeoff in Tokyo your passengers and flight
crew can place Satcom calls to anyone - anywhere in the world.
ASO allows you to custom tailor your Satcom airtime needs with the most available packages in the industry.
Plans are available for pay as you go or take advantage of savings through monthly, quarterly or annual billing.
Air Sat One also offers even more savings for fleet operators with discounted price points and allowing airtime to be
shared between aircraft in the fleet.
Air Sat One enhances Satcom voice with
Smart Call Plus and Smart Call.
Smart Call Plus assigns a 10-digit terrestrial number to the aircraft allowing you to dial a local number from your
country to make a phone call to your aircraft. We can typically provide a prefix that matches your corporate
headquarters anywhere in the world. Smart Call allows the user to dial a 1-800 number to initiate a call to the
aircraft. We have 1-800 numbers available in 21 countries and additional local access numbers in 12 countries.
Iridium
Iridium Voice Telephony
From the cockpit to the cabin, Iridium's global communications services keep you connected,
providing continuous communications no matter where your flight takes you.
Iridium offers the only network that provides pole to pole coverage with no service gaps anywhere
on the planet. Iridium's constellation of cross linked low earth orbiting satellites provide
multiple layers of redundancy to ensure the reliability of their network.
Iridium's 66 operational satellites are complemented by numerous in orbit spares. Calls are
connected from one satellite to another till they are downloaded to one of Iridium's gateways
where it is patched into the public switched phone system.
- 66 satellites
- 6 orbital planes
- 11 satellites per orbital plane
- One spare per orbital plane
- Inter-satellite cross-links
- 48 spot beams per satellite
Inmarsat
Simultaneous Voice Service
SwiftBroadband Voice comes with a 4.8 kbps high-quality voice stream which can operate simultaneously with data on a single SwiftBroadband terminal
- Direct Dial Voice Service
- Supports supplementary services: call hold/waiting/forwarding, SMS and voicemail.
- Text Messaging: send to or receive from any SMS-capable device
Swift 64 Service
Swift 64 provides a high quality voice service with the same functionality as land based
fixed phone services. The default telephony bandwidth for Swift 64 is 4.8 kbps and utilizes
the Advanced Multi-Band Excitation (AMBE) voice Codec, where AMBE is the technique used to compress
the human speech waveform.
- Voice (4.8 kbps AMBE codec)
- Circuit switched ISDN
- 64 kbps Speech capable
- Compatible with government-grade encryption and secure communications standards, including STU-IIIb and STE, Taclane, KIV-7 and Brent.
Inmarsat Classic Voice Service
Inmarsat's classic range of aeronautical services includes high-quality voice communications. The voice service is
used by most of the world's airlines and corporate jet operators, as well as governments for VIP aircraft,
coastguard and defense agencies. Aero H, Aero H+ and Aero I are ICAO approved for Safety Services.
Aero H
Multi-channel voice, 10.5kbps fax and data, delivered via a high-gain antenna within the satellites' global beams.
Aero H+
Multi-channel voice, 10.5kbps fax and data, delivered via a high-gain antenna within the spot beams of the Inmarsat-3 satellites and the full footprint of the Inmarsat-4 Atlantic Ocean Region (AOR) satellite, at a lower cost per connection.
Aero I
Multi-channel voice, 4.8kbps circuit-mode data and fax, delivered via an intermediate-gain antenna. Available in the spot beams of the Inmarsat-3 satellites.
Mini M Aero
Single-channel voice, fax or 2400bps data, for general aviation and smaller corporate aircraft. Supports STU-III encrypted voice.
Activate Aircraft Voice Service
Air Sat One offers voice services to customers with Inmarsat and Iridium compatible Satcom equipment. Activate an account today, tell us about you aircraft and equipment and activate your service with Air Sat One.