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PanAmSat To Expand Mexico’s Largest Broadband VSAT Network |
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — PanAmSat (NYSE:PA) has signed a multi-year agreement with the Mexican Department of Transportation and Communications (SCT) to expand the e-Mexico program, a far-reaching initiative that is delivering high-speed digital technology and Internet services to the entire Mexican population.
PanAmSat de Mexico, a strategic alliance between Grupo Pegaso and PanAmSat, delivered the space segment for Phase 1 of this Program to connect 3,200 public sites to serve 2,445 municipalities in Mexico via the Galaxy 3C satellite in only two years.
Joe Wright, CEO of PanAmSat, said the expanded first phase of the e-Mexico program will increase the number of individuals who will be able to efficiently communicate with the outside world.
Wright recalled that in less than seven months in 2003, a large number of municipalities in Mexico were given access, for the first time, to high-speed networks that are vital in providing basic education, health, emergency, law enforcement and other services. “The impact on these communities, and the country, is enormous,” said Wright.
The e-Mexico network consists of three major services: IP connectivity, computer systems and IP content. The combination of these three forces enables citizens in remote areas of the country to access educational programs, medical and community information as well as information about local and national government through a satellite-based network. PanAmSat supports the connectivity portion of the program by providing the satellite capacity necessary to interconnect the rapidly growing number of users at the community centers where VSAT terminals have been installed across the country.
Jorge Alvarez Hoth, deputy minister of communications for the SCT, said currently, e-Mexico has integrated in all its satellite stages 7,200 DCCs across our country plus 300 additional DCCs on terrestrial networks. Our goal is to reach 10,000 DCCs by the end of the current administration, he said.
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