INMARSAT plc

In this chapter, since all of the legal subsidiaries (Inmarsat Group, Ltd., Inmarsat Finance plc., Inmarsat Investment Ltd., Inmarsat Ventures Ltd., Inmarsat Global Ltd., etc.) are eventually owned by Inmarsat plc. and subject to restructuring at any time, one should ignore them and treat Inmarsat as a single business. Also, through its subsidiaries, Inmarsat holds investments in a variety of businesses with whom it partners. Inmarsat is organized into two broad business groups with a separate corporate overhead organization that addresses financial, legal, human resources, physical plant, external relations, R&D, and other corporate functions. The business groups are Inmarsat Global and Inmarsat Solutions. Inmarsat Global leases bulk satellite capacity to governments or large organizations and provides mobile satellite services (MSS) on a wholesale on‐demand basis to distributors but not to end users. In many ways, the most important services that Inmarsat provides are leased services.