G2 Satellite Solutions Secures Multi-Year Contract With MCI

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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2004
G2 Satellite Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PanAmSat, announced Tuesday that MCI renewed a multi-million dollar, two-year deal for satellite services.

Under terms of the agreement, G2 will provide two Ku-band transponders on Galaxy XI, with redundancy provisions on SBS-6 - reinforcing the company's long-standing relationship with MCI.

MCI is utilizing G2's satellite solutions on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Telecommunications Satellite (FAATSAT) System, which provides the voice and data communications that maintain safe, air traffic flow.

As the prime contractor on FAATSAT, MCI built a high-performance, high-availability satellite communications system that provides communications to more than 106 air traffic control facilities.

FAATSAT supports both broadcast and point-to-point applications, and is compliant with the FAA's strict performance requirements. In addition to the two transponders on Galaxy XI, FAATSAT also encompasses 21 regional terminals, with each communicating to multiple remote sites.

"Given the critical nature of this network, G2 is proud to support MCI in delivering highly reliable services to the FAA by satellite," said Tom Eaton, executive vice president of PanAmSat and president of G2 Satellite Solutions.

"This is just one example of the civilian government applications that rely on satellite communications to meet their mission. In addition, this demonstrates G2's commitment to serving telecommunications companies, prime contractors, system integrators and value added resellers in support of critical government satellite communications applications."

G2 is also a strategic supplier to MCI's Emergency Mobile Communications Centers. These communication vehicles provide free local, long distance and international calls, as well as free Internet access, to disaster victims (i.e., wildfires, tornados, hurricanes, etc.).

The fleet recently returned from Florida where it was deployed to support relief efforts.

Earlier this year, two of the mobile communications units were positioned at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas and Fort Carson Army base in Colorado to provide troops the opportunity to call home before being deployed to Iraq.

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Globalstar Extends Satellite Data Service To All Of Europe And Across Atlantic

Milpitas CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2004
Globalstar Wednesday announced that it will offer simplex, or one-way, data services to customers using its European gateway located in France. Combined with the current simplex data coverage offered by the Globalstar gateway in Turkey, this expanded coverage will more than double the area currently served by the company's simplex data service to include all of Europe, the North Atlantic, and North Africa.

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