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New Satellite Broadband In New Year |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
Australia will get increased access to satellite broadband capabilities from January 1st when ETT Limited,through its agreement
with IPSTAR
Australia turns on a new service. ETT has an exclusive contract to represent IPSTAR's and offer its user
terminals and broadband capacity.
ETT
Chairman Larry Shutes said the company has entered in to a 12 year
agreement as the exclusive National Service Operator (NSO) for IPSTAR
broadband satellite services in Australia, being responsible for the
wholesale supply of IPSTAR products and services to both existing and
new service providers.
"We
will supply satellite broadband to consumer and corporate customers
across Australia with a particular focus on the more than 1 million
regional Australians who have limited or no landline broadband
access," he said.
"We
will build on the network already established here by IPSTAR to
provide a reliable and affordable broadband service to regional
Australia," he said.
Teerasak Sawekpun, General Manager of IPSTAR Australia said: "We
are delighted to have ETT as our partner. ETT has indicated its
interest in IPSTAR's business over the last 18 months and has since
put together a compelling business case around IPSTAR technology. It
has also built a strong relationship with existing major IPSTAR
Service Providers who will in turn be ETT's retail arm after taking
over the service distribution responsibility from IPSTAR Australia. "
"This
contract with ETT provides IPSTAR Australia with minimum revenue
commitment of AU$ 665
million over the 12 year period. The commitment comprises 131,500
IPSTAR user terminals and 3.5 Gbps of IPSTAR capacity. ETT will be
promoting the IPSTAR brand and handle commercialization of IPSTAR
services while IPSTAR Australia will manage the operation and growth
of the IPSTAR platform."
See Ultimate
Internet
http://ipstar.com.au/
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