The WSBS will be the foundation of business operations for the WorldSpace network, a digital multi-media satellite broadcasting service to the emerging and underserviced regions of the world. The WSBS will offer a complete line of business operations functions: Advertisement Sales and Traffic Management, Channel Leasing, Marketing and Pre-sales Support, and Subscriptions Service Management.

The Stanford Telecom team, which includes Sideout Technologies and Skjei Telecom, will assist in determining the needs of the WorldSpace Sales and Marketing operations, and developing the business system to serve those needs. This effort will involve the integration of commercially available software products with custom-built software to create a fully functional business system. High reliability and security considerations are paramount for this internet-based system, which will serve WorldSpace business sites and remote users worldwide.

"We are extremely happy to have been selected for the integration of this critical business application," said Leonard Schuchman, President of the Communications and Navigation Systems (CNS) group of Stanford Telecom. "The activity of this contract represents an expansion of our existing business relationship with a valued customer, WorldSpace, and recognizes STel's outstanding credentials in business system integration for satellite service providers."

About WorldSpace:

Based in Washington, D.C., WorldSpace was founded in 1990 to provide direct satellite delivery of digital audio communications services to the emerging and underserved markets of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. By the end of the decade, WorldSpace will have three satellites in orbit to transmit quality information, education and entertainment programming to a service area that includes over 4.6 billion people.

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