SingTel Unveils New Maritime Crew Initiative

 

14 April, 2011

 

Singapore Telecommunication Limited announced a free maritime broadband offer and the launch of a new web portal that will allow crew members to keep up with the latest news and stay in touch with their friends, family and co-workers.

 

Called crewXchange@singtel, this one-stop portal (crew.singtel.com) allows users to subscribe to news feeds, access emails, and chat with their friends using various messenger platforms. This ‘lightweight’ portal is available free of charge to all SingTel maritime broadband customers and optimised to cater to bandwidth limitation on board vessels.

 

"SingTel is committed to transforming and enhancing the way the maritime seafarers work, live, learn and play," said Mr Bill Chang, Executive Vice President of SingTel’s Business Group. crewXchange@singtel will provide a bandwidth-optimised networking platform where the seafarer community can communicate with their headquarters more efficiently, get connected with their loved ones, be updated with the latest knowledge through e-learning content and get access to entertainment content more cost-effectively. It is a service that will be very valuable for the welfare and upgrading of maritime crew members."

 

To facilitate better communication among their own crews, companies can also set up their own private chat rooms. With SingTel’s extensive maritime broadband network, it is estimated that almost 10,000 crew members will benefit from this community network by logging onto crewXchange@singtel from their laptops or devices while on the vessels.