Earth station contract from Golden Telecom awaits Intersputnik

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Satellite Networks; 26 July 2006; 10422 views

Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, has won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite earth stations for the Golden Telecom satellite network within the Russian Federation...

According to the tender results Intersputnik Holding is entrusted with equipment supply, assembly, start-up and commissioning, as well as the technical maintenance of new satellite earth stations within the Golden Telecom network in the Siberian, Far Eastern, North-Western and Urals federal districts. The work mentioned above will be performed by Isatel plc (a Russian operator which is a member of Intersputnik Holding) in consortium with JSC Moscow Teleport and JSC Satis-TL-94.

At present Golden Telecom is one of the major lessees of Intersputnik satellite capacity. Recently the company signed an agreement with Intersputnik on the lease of three transponders on Express-AM-series satellites in addition to the LMI-1 satellite resource leased earlier.

A cooperation agreement has also been signed to provide satellite communication services using Intersputnik system capacities to third parties as well as in other projects related to the establishment and operation of fixed satellite service networks. The agreement was signed by President of Golden Telecom Alexander Vinogradov and Director General of Intersputnik Vadim Belov.

* Intersputnik Holding, a 100% subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, was established in December 2005 and offers full-scale satellite communication services including satellite and ground segments plus maintenance of regional and international networks for governmental and private customers.

** Golden Telecom is a facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in major population centres throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It offers voice, data and Internet services by using its overlay network in major cities including Moscow , Kiev , St Petersburg , Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Kaliningrad , Krasnoyarsk , Alma-Ata and Tashkent , as well as via intercity fibre-optic and satellite-based networks, including approximately 278 combined access points in the CIS. Golden Telecom offers supplies cellular communication services in Kiev and Odessa.