{"id":86563,"date":"2010-07-30T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kt-leases-capacity-on-multiple-abs-satellites\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:38:22","slug":"kt-leases-capacity-on-multiple-abs-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kt-leases-capacity-on-multiple-abs-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"KT Leases Capacity on Multiple ABS Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-30-10]&nbsp; <strong>Korea Telecom<\/strong> (KT) signed an agreement with<strong> Asia Broadcast Satellite<\/strong> (ABS) to lease multiple C and Ku-band transponders on various ABS satellites, including ABS-2, which is scheduled to be operational in early 2013, the operator announced July 29.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis agreement will strengthen KT\u2019s satellite business with a view of better support on its customers who are in need of global connectivity. Thanks to this additional capability, KT could serve around 66 countries with the umbrella of KT\u2019s combined satellite fleets,\u201d KT Senior Executive Vice President Sung Man Kim said in a statement. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed, but the operator said the capacity lease was a multimillion-dollar purchase.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This contract marks the third transaction between the two organizations in about 12 months. The earlier agreements were for the sale and purchase of two Koreasat satellites.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Arianespace Assesses Opportunities in Asia<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 14, 2010<br \/>\nArianespace CEO  Jean-Yves Le Gall hopes that  the successful launch earlier this week of  the Arabsat-5A satellite, as  well as South Korea s COMS  (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological  satellite), will provide  opportunities for growing its\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">KT, Eutelsat Partnerships Set to Develop<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 17, 2010<br \/>\n[06-17-10]  Right now, I don t  see any other satellite company growing faster than Asia Broadcast  Satellite (ABS). We have the pole position in terms of growth in the  industry,  Tom Choi, ABS CEO told Satellite News. The company has\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ABS CEO: KT, Eutelsat Partnerships Likely to Deepen<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 17, 2010<br \/>\nRight now, I don t see any other satellite  company growing faster than Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS). We have the  pole position in terms of growth in the industry,  Tom Choi, ABS CEO  told the CommunicAsia E-Daily. The company has been engaged\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-30-10]&nbsp; Korea Telecom (KT) signed an agreement with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to lease multiple C and Ku-band transponders on various ABS satellites, including ABS-2, which is scheduled to be operational in early 2013, the operator announced July 29. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis agreement will strengthen KT\u2019s satellite business with a view of better support on its [&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-86563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86563"}],"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=86563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}