NewCom International Selects Intersputnik for US-Cuba Satellite Service

MOSCOW, March 25, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — Under a contract with the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, NewCom International, Inc., USA, has leased 32 MHz on the Russian Express-3A satellite at 11 degrees West to provide telecommunications and data services between the US and Cuba.

Intersputnik said it made this radio frequency resource available to NewCom based on an agreement with RSCC, the owner of Express-A series spacecraft.

For the duplex 34 Mbps/16 Mbps satellite channel, NewCom uses its own teleport in Miami, FL, in combination with the Caribe earth station run by Cuba’s national telecommunications operator ETECSA.

“Caribe is the first earth station brought into use in the Intersputnik system in the early 1970s. Intersputnik welcomes the activation of the new satellite trunk line by the Republic of Cuba that has been a member country of our Organization since its establishment,” said Gennady Kudryavtsev, director general of Intersputnik.

Developed by NPO PM, Russia, in cooperation with Alcatel Space, France, Express-3A was launched in June 2000. With its 12 C-band and five Ku-band transponders, Express-3A features a high level of radiated power and wide coverage areas reaching from the US East Coast to Africa and Mideast.

This satellite is used by Intersputnik’s customers for trans-Atlantic voice traffic, data and high-speed access to the Internet as well as television and radio broadcasting in Europe.