Imagine you are travelling by a ferry service from one land to the other. When you are in the middle of the water and you need to communicate to the land urgently. You cannot setup a telephone land line in ferry boats. If you go for IMARSAT communication, it will be very expensive.

Let us see what IMARSAT communication is. Usually, the vessels/ships, when they are in the sea, will have the facility and services of organisations involved in IMARSAT (International Maritime Satellite) communication. Vessels/ships fitted with such Imarsat solutions are connected to the world’s most advanced mobile communications network. Mariners on vessels/ships with such solutions can communicate as effectively as they were ashore and crews can remain in contact with their families and friends. Imarsat satellite solutions include voice and fax, circuit switched and packet data, data speeds upto 512 kbps, safety and security services etc. Imarsat’s maritime portfolio can help improve vessel/ship performance, offering internet connectivity access to corporate networks, e-mail, weather and chart updates, position reporting, telemedicine, remote diagnostics, crew calling and other office applications. The call charges for such a satellite communication will come to more than Rs. 100 per minute.

Mostly the ferry services will be well within 25 to 30 kilometers range from the land. So, always it will be under a mobile service providers’ coverage area. In these places, you can prefer a mobile phone over a satellite communication. But, for a common man, due to high call charges, a mobile phone is still ‘out of reach’. Call charges of mobile service providers come down only if you go for ‘premier schemes’.

For a common man making use of a ferry service, it is a boon to have a coin-operated PCO in the ferry boat. He/she can make calls at normal land line rates using a PCO. An Xtend FCT which can work as a coin-operated PCO can be installed in ferry boats very easily.

A coin-operated PCO using Xtend FCT, in which a mobile phone is connected, can be kept at a safe place on the ferry boat where you have the maximum ‘range’. By installing an FCT, you can save money too! FCT is the best way to use a mobile phone most effectively and efficiently.

You can setup the PCO in ferry boats within a few hours and in just 3 steps!

1. Get a GSM/CDMA mobile connection.
2. Attach it to the Xtend FCT device.
3. Install the FCT and start working.

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