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EMC, a global provider of satellite telecommunications networks, is assuring under this agreement capacity in Arabsat satellite fleet, with coverage of the entire African and the Central Asian countries for the next ten years.
“It is no secret that getting satellite capacity is one of the major challenges the industry is facing for the years to come. This agreement with Arabsat allows EMC to keep providing its customers a full range of options and will assure capacity for their networks”, said Abel Avellan, President of EMC.
And he added “EMC provides end-to-end communications services to organizations that have operations in countries where satellite is the best or the only option. The UN and different 500 fortune companies are among our customers. These are organizations for which the quality and stability of their communications are critical factors in their day-to-day operations. We have to make sure we deliver that, and to assure the satellite capacity for the future is one of our top priorities.”
Khalid Balkheyour, President & CEO of Arabsat, answered “We are immensely pleased, and feel definitely honored, to have been able to convince such a large and reputable north-American telecommunications player as EMC that our brand new BADR-6 satellite is currently the best available option on the market to guarantee their long-term growth over the Middle East and Africa regions”.
He then concluded “we consider the signature of this major contract as a milestone in our ambitious deployment plan towards the sub-Saharan African market, and trust it marks the beginning of a long-term partnership with EMC whose expansion we’ll be equipped to support further with our forthcoming three 5th generation satellites in 2009, 2010, and 2011.”
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For more information, please contact:
EMC Press Relations:
Ms. Andrea Moya, amoya@emc-corp.net
Tel.: +1 305 539 1358 (ext 120)
Mobile: +54 9 11 6456 7888
Fax: +1 786 425 0400
ARABSAT PRs Manager:
Mr. Saad al-Tehaif, saadt@arabsat.com
Tel.: +966/(0)1-281-9603
Mobile: +966/(0)50-541-9057
About EMC
Emerging Markets Communications, Inc. (EMC) is a leading provider of global satellite communications. Utilizing a state of the art, fully managed network, EMC offers end-to-end satellite private networks services and teleport services in more than 140 countries. A United States-based company with headquarters in Florida, EMC is powered by its network of strategically located, wholly-owned support centers (in Argentina, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Russia, Senegal, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States). In addition, EMC operates two wholly-owned teleport facilities, which are equipped with 11 to 32 meter C-, Ku-, L- and X-band antennas, as well as 120,000 square feet of highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure. The Quality Management System of Emerging Markets Communications is ISO 9001-2000 certified. – For more information on EMC, please visit our website: www.emc-corp.net
About ARABSAT
With a 30-year heritage, Arabsat offers the Middle-East & Africa world an unrivalled range of satellite communications services: Direct-to-Home TV & Radio, telephony, Internet, Broadband, VSATs, and numerous other state-of-the-art services meeting current and emerging demand. Arabsat currently carries 340+ TV channels and keeps expanding its services in order to meet the evolving needs of its customers. With an audience of 164 Million viewers in the Arab world alone, its 26°E "hot-spot" has become the video neighborhood of choice. Its aggressive fleet deployment of one new satellite per year from 2008 to 2012, including its brand new BADR-6, enables Arabsat to now deliver an unparalleled level of services in the MENA region --and far beyond, with ultimate flexibility and unmatched reliability thanks to an industry-unique true in-orbit back-up. With its fully integrated fleet of satellites operating cutting-edge technologies on all frequency bands over the whole Middle-East, Europe and Africa, Arabsat now allows its customers to deliver any type of content to audiences or end-users farther than ever. More: www.arabsat.com |