Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite Earth stations for Golden Telecom satellite network in the territory of the Russian Federation.
According to the results of the tender Intersputnik Holding is entrusted with equipment supply, assembly, startup and commissioning, as well as technical maintenance of new satellite earth stations of the Golden Telecom network in the territory of Siberian, Far Eastern, Northwestern and Urals federal districts.
The above scope of work will be performed by ISATEL, a Russian member of the Intersputnik Holding group of companies, part of a consortium with JSC Moscow Teleport and JSC Satis-TL-94.
"Partnership relations between Intersputnik and Golden Telecom in terms of satellite resource lease have existed for several years. For Intersputnik Holding the decision of Golden Telecom means an excellent opportunity to implement our potential as a provider of full-scale solutions," said Oleg Timoshenko, Intersputnik president.
Golden Telecom is one of the major lessees of Intersputnik's satellite capacity. Recently, the company signed an agreement with Intersputnik on the lease of three transponders on Express-AM-series satellites in addition to the LMI-1 satellite resource leased earlier.
Golden Telecom and Intersputnik signed an agreement of cooperation to provide satellite communication services using Intersputnik system capacities to third parties, plus other projects related to the establishment and operation of fixed satellite service networks.
