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Table 4. Character transmission and monthly payment costs for Northeast Region approved Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS). SkyMate® offers three separate payment plans to address data needs of different users (http://www.skymate.com). Boatracs® offers a single payment plan (http://www.boatracs.com, Debbie Foste, Boatracs, June 12, 2007, pers. comm.). Data are accurate as of June 12, 2007.

VMS vendor

Payment plan

Monthly cost

Included characters

Cost per message segment (1250 characters)

Cost per character

SkyMate®

Silver

$15.99

8,000

N/A

$0.0020

SkyMate®

Gold

$34.99

20,000

N/A

$0.0017

SkyMate®

Platinum

$69.99

50,000

N/A

$0.0014

Boatracs®

N/A

$50.00

N/A

$0.30

$0.0030