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PanAmSat Launches Latin America Teleport Service
Greenwich, Conn - Dec 1, 1997 - PanAmSat Corporation today announced an innovative service that enables telecommunications carriers to tap into an integrated package of PanAmSat satellite and teleport services as needed to relay telephone calls between business customers in Latin America and the United States and the rest of the world. Carriers in Guatemala, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador are already establishing bandwidth-on-demand type applications including private network telephony and ISDN networks using PanAmSat's PAS-5 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite and its teleport in Homestead, Fla. PanAmSat conducted the first demonstration of the service in early November during the Iberoamerica Presidential Summit in Venezuela. PanAmSat's PAS-5 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite relayed telephone calls from the Isla de Margarita to the United States and abroad. ``PanAmSat's new corporate telephony service is designed to provide a value-added voice and high-speed data communications service for telecommunications carriers and their business customers in Latin America,'' said Alvaro T. Gazzolo, PanAmSat's regional vice president, Latin America. ``The new service is cost-effective, flexible and easy to use, essentially creating for carriers a virtual private telephony network. Carriers only pay for satellite capacity based on the number of minutes of traffic that is actually transmitted over the satellite, so more end-users and carriers, for whom satellite communications may have been cost-prohibitive, can take advantage of what is an ideal service offering for them. ``PanAmSat is uniquely capable of offering this bundled package of services because of our satellite and ground-based capabilities serving the Americas,'' Gazzolo added. ``We expect that the PAS-5 satellite, our latest and most powerful ever serving the region, will be particularly popular for this application because of its single-beam coverage of the Americas with access to Europe in conjunction with new technologies such as demand assigned multiple access.'' Through strategic alliances with local carriers in Latin America, PanAmSat's bundled corporate telephony service provides local access for businesses in country, international satellite capacity and U.S. teleport services as well as international gateway switching and termination of minutes worldwide. Transmissions over PAS-5 are made over the C-band Americas beam, which provides comprehensive coverage of the Americas with European access. PAS-5, which contains 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders, was launched on August 27 and commenced commercial service in early October. PAS-5 is PanAmSat's 16th satellite and its fifth serving Latin America. PanAmSat plans to launch five additional satellites by late 1998, including the Galaxy VIII-i satellite in December 1997.
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