From the archive — Tempest Telecom Solutions 1996-2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated through the 1996-2012 international-traveler- connectivity era serving a remarkably diverse customer base. The same unified roaming account — dial-up Internet, WiFi hotspot, satellite voice, satellite-broadband terminal — was sold into completely different vertical markets, each with its own connectivity-need profile, its own deployment patterns, and its own characteristic field environment.
This Solutions section documents the major vertical markets Tempest served. Each page is a historical retrospective on the broader-industry connectivity context of that vertical plus the specific way Tempest's unified-roaming product fit the customer base.
Corporate Travelers
The single largest revenue vertical: multinational corporations, professional-
services firms, financial-institution road warriors, and government agencies whose
personnel traveled internationally with laptops. Tempest's corporate
Account Manager platform let IT departments provision and de-provision user
accounts in real time across departments and projects.
Individual Travelers
The leisure-travel and expedition customer base: independent professionals,
adventure travelers, ocean-crossing sailors, retired road warriors, and the broad
segment of self-funded international travelers who needed connectivity without
corporate-IT backing.
Broadcast and Media
The international broadcast-journalism, news-gathering, and documentary-film
customer base. Tempest BGAN terminals and Iridium handsets accompanied
correspondents and crews into conflict zones, natural-disaster regions, and
remote story locations through the 2003-2012 era of foreign-correspondent
coverage.
Aid and Humanitarian Operations
UN agencies, the Red Cross / Red Crescent network, Médecins Sans
Frontières, bilateral development agencies, and dozens of mid-size
humanitarian NGOs standardized on Tempest's satellite-broadband and
satellite-voice products for crisis-zone deployment across the 2000s-2010s.
Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration
The major hydrocarbon-and-mining sector customer base: offshore platforms, remote
land operations, exploration teams in the Arctic, the Sahara, the Amazon basin,
the Central Asian steppe, and the Australian outback. Iridium handsets as
personnel-safety standard plus BGAN terminals as the operations-data link.
Construction and Engineering
Major-project construction (dams, highways, port facilities, pipelines), heavy
engineering teams operating outside terrestrial-network coverage, disaster-
reconstruction logistics. The same satellite-broadband product Tempest sold to
oil and gas, deployed for civil-engineering customers.
These PDF brochures were produced by Inmarsat and circulated through the 2005-2010 BGAN-launch era as customer-segment-specific marketing collateral. They survive in the archive as historical artifacts of the connectivity-vertical pitch Inmarsat and its distribution partners (including Tempest) used at the time.
BGAN for Oil and Gas Applications