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  • Asiasat, Shin Sat conclude frequency coordination agreement

    Asiasat, Shin Sat conclude frequency coordination agreement

    HONG KONG: Shin Satellite and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (Asiasat) have announced that the administrations of China and Thailand have concluded a frequency coordination agreement between both countries.

    The agreement settled all concerned ITU filings of both sides at 120E and 122E for Thailand and China respectively.

    Shin Satellite CEO Dr. Dumrong Kasemset was quoted in an official release saying, ” We have to thank the governments of both China and Thailand for their continual support, leading to a reasonable and equitable resolution. We believe that with this agreement the customers using satellites located at the two slots will be protected from interference. This is also a good example of how Asian regional satellite operators can cooperate for the benefit of all.”

    Asiasat CEO Peter Jackson added, ” This agreement demonstrates that the normal ITU processes work exceptionally well in cases where potential harmful interference could occur between satellites. The agreement between AsiaSat and Shin Satellite fully protects Asiasat’s clients in China and Australia from the signals at Ku band generated by iPSTAR.

    “Asiasat’s Ku band clients will be able to use 60 cm antennas for receiving only DTH type applications and 80 cm antennas for two way communications applications. Protection criteria for C band applications were also agreed. This will ensure that clients of both companies do not suffer from adjacent network interference.”

    Turnkey satellite operator Shin Satellite provides a C-band and Ku-band transponder leasing, teleport and other value-added and engineering services to users in Asia, Africa, Europe and Australasia. Shin Satellite owns and operates Thaicom 1A, 2, and 3. Thaicom 1A is located at 120E, and Thaicom 2 and 3 are both located at 78.5E with a total capacity of 49 C-band and 20 Ku-band transponders offering over 70 channels. Thaicom is a hotbird for Indochina and India, an emerging platform of choice for transcontinental Sat TV broadcasts from Europe to Australia.

    Asiasat claims to be the leading regional satellite operator in Asia. It serves over two-thirds of the world’s population with its satellites. The Asiasat satellite system provides services to both the broadcast and telecommunications industries. Over 120 analogue and digital television channels and 90 radio channels are now delivered by the Company’s satellites, reaching over 80 million households, with more than 300 million viewers across the Asia Pacific region. The release adds that many telecommunications customers use Asiasat for services such as public telephone networks, private VSAT networks and high speed Internet and multimedia services.

  • Shin Sat signs $390 m. loan deal for iPSTAR-1

    Shin Sat signs $390 m. loan deal for iPSTAR-1

    MUMBAI: Asia’s number two satellite operator Shin Satellite Plc. of Thailand today announced it had signed a $390 million loan deal for its long in gestation iPSTAR-1 project.

    The announcement comes over two years (August 2000) after Shin Sat awarded the contract for the design and construction of iPSTAR-1 to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). iPSTAR-1 is a high-powered geostationary satellite to be used for broadband communications applications.

    Shin Sat announced that it has signed with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (“Ex-Im Bank”) and Compagnie Francaise d’Assurance pour la Commerce Extrieur de France (COFACE) agreements for loan guarantee facilities of a total of $ 265 million. Shin Sat has also signed a $ 125 million syndicated commercial bank facility arranged jointly by BNP Paribas and Citibank/SalomonSmithBarney. The credit support from the Ex-Im Bank and Coface will be in the form of a guarantee facility provided by Citibank and BNP Paribas.

    The credit support from the Ex-Im Bank represents approximately 85 per cent of US content, mostly for the payment of the satellite’s construction by SS/Loral. Support from COFACE will cover 85 per cent of the cost of launching the satellite on Arianespace from French Guyana, an official release says.

    The Ex-Im support effectively makes iPSTAR the only broadband satellite project in the world to receive full financing, the release asserts. The company expects to receive iPSTAR-1 by the end of 2003 and see it fully operational in early 2004. In the meantime, Shin Satellite has deployed gateways in several important markets in this Asia-Pacific region.

    Shin Sat will use iPSTAR-1, a satellite with a hybrid Ka-/Ku-band communications payload, to provide direct-to-desktop, last-mile services, including new multi-media and data services to customers in Asia, India, and Australia.

    With total satellite power of approximately 14 kW, iPSTAR-1 will provide 100 beams in the Ku-band and the Ka-band – to deliver broad coverage from its orbital location at 1200 East longitude. iPSTAR-1 is designed to provide 12 years of uninterrupted service life.