{"id":83296,"date":"2012-04-05T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecom-inks-amos-5-multi-year-extension-after-only-two-months-of-service\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T20:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:06:51","slug":"spacecom-inks-amos-5-multi-year-extension-after-only-two-months-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecom-inks-amos-5-multi-year-extension-after-only-two-months-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom Inks Amos-5 Multi-Year Extension After Only Two Months of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-05-12] An unnamed client servicing the African region on <b>Spacecom\u2019s<\/b> Amos-5 has exercised an $11 million contractual clause to extend services on the satellite for a total of five years, Spacecom confirmed April 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Spacecom said the African communications provider is using Amos-5 for supplying data services over the satellite\u2019s pan-African C-band beam. Amos-5 entered service in January to serve Africa from the 17 degrees East orbital position with C- and Ku-band beams.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cAfter only two months of full service on Amos-5, [our client] has already decided to fulfill a complete five-year contract with us,\u201d Spacecom Senior Vice President for Africa Sales Eyal Copitt said in a statement. \u201cThis is a testament to the excellence of service we provide and the strong relationships we build. Amos-5 is providing Spacecom with an exciting and extremely powerful platform for African communication companies, organizations and governments. We look forward to realizing its tremendous potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-05-12] An unnamed client servicing the African region on Spacecom\u2019s Amos-5 has exercised an $11 million contractual clause to extend services on the satellite for a total of five years, Spacecom confirmed April 4. &nbsp; &nbsp;Spacecom said the African communications provider is using Amos-5 for supplying data services over the satellite\u2019s pan-African C-band beam. Amos-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}