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Financially Speaking — Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited has announced their 2008 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2008. The financial summary, excluding one-time receipts, finds...
- Turnover HK$487,407,000 +5.6 percent HK$485,982,000 +7.3 percent
- Profit attributable to equity holders HK$223,872,000 -9.7 percent HK$222,447,000 -6.8 percent
- Earnings per share HK$0.57 -9.5 percent HK$0.57 -6.5 percent
- Dividend per share HK$0.08 no change
- ThurayaLocate Is Free — UAE based Thuraya Telecommunications Company is launching a new location service, ThurayaLocate™, in conjunction with U.K.-based Geonix, a specialist in location services and equipment. Available immediately, the ThurayaLocate™ service allows anyone with any Thuraya handset to view their position on maps, satellite images ,and aerial photography, anywhere in the world. Every satellite phone developed for the Thuraya network contains an embedded GPS positioning system, and this is used — when initiated by the user — to report the handset’s position to the ThurayaLocate™ servers. From there, the position display can be shared, as defined by the user, with any friends, family, employer or rescue agency. The service is available to all Thuraya customers free of charge and merely requires the user register and activate the service from their respective handsets.
Satnews Daily
August 18th, 2008
ORBITZ