Gulf Business Magazine Subscribe to Gulf Business and receive 1,000 FREE Skywards Miles, and the chance to win a further 100,000 in our quarterly draw. Charles Schwab delayed by 20 mins. Out To Dinner, actually. The future of global voice and data communications is in the hands of George Novelli, vice-president of business development at Inmarsat, so I have to take my eating opportunities as they come.
Food is one thing.
Being able to transfer interactive files to your company's server from anywhere in the world, or talk to your lover from a thousand miles at sea, or video-conference to the top of Mount Everest, is quite another. Inmarsat has just become a private company. Owned since 1977 by 86 countries through the International Maritime Organisation, governments were given shares in the corporatised company on April 15 this year. From the world's tried and tested shipping safety and disaster communications provider, the organisation has been catapulted to centre stage in the global telecommunications race. Novelli is in Dubai to spread the word.