Globecomm Awarded $1.6-M Contract from a DTH Provider In Asia

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., July 6, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) announced that a direct-to-home provider in Asia has exercised a follow-on provision in their existing contract valued at $1.6 million.

On January 20, 2005, Globecomm announced a letter of award and purchase order from a provider of direct-to-home video services in Asia. The contract included follow-on provisions, which the customer has now exercised.

Pursuant to the original contract, Globecomm designed and built a new direct-to-home uplink facility. The facility includes two thirteen-meter antennas with tracking and all the related sub-systems. Globecomm also built a program acquisition system with a multi-feed receive only antenna, multiple receive only C band antennas and all related subsystems.

Globecomm said that now that the customer's new facility has been completed, they have exercised the follow on provision in the original contract to upgrade a previously existing facility.

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