{"id":88119,"date":"2009-11-12T01:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gilat-satcom-signs-multiple-renewal-expansion-agreements-with-intelsat-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T01:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T17:41:52","slug":"gilat-satcom-signs-multiple-renewal-expansion-agreements-with-intelsat-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gilat-satcom-signs-multiple-renewal-expansion-agreements-with-intelsat-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilat Satcom Signs Multiple Renewal, Expansion Agreements with Intelsat in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-11-09] <strong>Intelsat<\/strong> signed multi-year renewal and expansion deals with <strong>Gilat Satcom<\/strong> to increase and enhance domestic networks and broadband services in Africa, Intelsat announced Nov. 10.<br \/>\nGilat renewed its contract for capacity on Intelsat 901 and Intelsat 702 and secured pre-launch capacity commitments on Intelsat 14 (IS-14) and Intelsat 17, which will be located at 315 degrees East and 66 degrees East, respectively. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gilat also initiated services on Intelsat 1R (IS-1R) at its current orbital location and contracted for additional capacity that it will use once IS-1R is moved to 310 degrees East following the launch of IS-14, scheduled for later this year. The Israeli company also will use Intelsat\u2019s Fuchsstadt, Germany, teleport to host Gilat broadband platforms. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The deal represents new direction and a new market for Gilat in Africa and increases Intelsat\u2019s service over the continent. \u201cBy 2012, Intelsat will deliver approximately 5,000 megahertz of incremental capacity to the African region,&#8221; Kurt Riegelman, Intelsat\u2019s senior vice president of global sales, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Intelsat Transponder Services Deliver Revenue Increase in Third Quarter<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 10, 2009<br \/>\n[11-10-09] Intelsat saw its 2009 third quarter revenues increase $19.4 million to $617.9 million, up from $598.5 million in 2008, the operator announced in its financial results, released Nov. 9. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Gilat Receives Contract for Internet Services in Pamana<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 9, 2009<br \/>\n[10-09-09] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been chosen by Cable &amp; Wireless Panama (C&amp;W), Panama\u2019s largest telecommunications operator, to provide a SkyEdge 2 network that will\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Gilat Deploys SkyEdge 2 VSAT Internet Service on Kazakhstan Passenger Railways<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 23, 2009<br \/>\n[09-23-09] Gilat Satellite Networks deployed a broadband satellite Internet service for passengers of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the national railway company of Kazakhstan, Gilat announced Sept. 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-11-09] Intelsat signed multi-year renewal and expansion deals with Gilat Satcom to increase and enhance domestic networks and broadband services in Africa, Intelsat announced Nov. 10. Gilat renewed its contract for capacity on Intelsat 901 and Intelsat 702 and secured pre-launch capacity commitments on Intelsat 14 (IS-14) and Intelsat 17, which will be located at [&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-88119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119"}],"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=88119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}