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Measat Vice President Elected to ITU Radio Regulations Board |
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 23, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Measat’s vice president of Engineering & Operations, Dr. Ali R. Ebadi, has been elected to a prestigious seat on the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (RRB).
The RRB is an international panel of experts under the ITU who convene to oversee the application of the world’s Radio Regulations, a set of internationally agreed guidelines for the use of the radio spectrum across the world. The RRB is made up of 12 members from the 191 Member States of the ITU representing the world’s five ITU regions (Americas, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia). Dr Ebadi was voted first in the ITU’s Asia and Australasia region with a total of 117 votes during the ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference recently held in Turkey. He was elected ahead of candidates from countries such as India, Pakistan and New Zealand.
Dr. Ebadi has actively participated in, and submitted several papers to, the ITU and other international conferences for more than 20 years. These include ITU’s World Radiocommunications Conferences (WRCs), Plenipotentiary Conferences (PPs), Radiocommunications Assemblies, Study Groups, ITU Councils and Plenipotentiary preparations. He has also been actively involved in drafting several documents for ITU’s WRCs and PPs. His expertise in satellite communications and interference resolution will be of importance to the RRB.
At Measat, Dr Ebadi oversees the development of Malaysia’s sole fleet of communications satellites. He was in-charge-of the procurement and launch of the Measat-1 and Measat-2 satellites in the 1990’s and has been overseeing the procurement and manufacture of the Measat-3 satellite which will be launched in mid-December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Measat-3 will extend the reach of the Measat fleet, to enable customers to reach over 100 countries, representing more than 70 percent of the world’s population.
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