Endurance Runners use BGan

"More than 200 runners are tackling one of the planet's most gruelling endurance races, with BGAN beaming news direct from the event in the world's oldest desert.

RacingThePlanet's 4 Desert series comes to Namibia on 17 May, for a seven-day, 155-mile (250 km) self-supported foot-race through the Namib desert.
A field of 214 from 38 countries is expected to participate, including a record number of past champions who will be vying for top places. Many will be raising money for local and international charities.

News cyber-tent
Competitors will have access to a cyber-tent, which will house 15 laptops for sending up-to-the-minute results, field updates, daily journals, video clips and pictures via BGAN to the race website and supporters around the world.
The event kicks off with a steep descent into the Fish River Canyon, the second deepest canyon in the world.

Competitors will make their way through the African bush traversing lunar-like landscapes and some of the most demanding and challenging sand dunes in the world to finish at the Skeleton Coast.

This years RacingThePlanet has already visited Chile and events are also planned for the Gobi desert in China and the Sahara in Egypt."

Source: Inmarsat