{"id":4702,"date":"2015-07-10T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T09:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:05:34","slug":"speedcast-announces-the-acquisition-of-newsats-teleport-and-satellite-services-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Speedcast Announces the Acquisition of Newsat\u2019s Teleport and Satellite Services Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpeedCast International Limited (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedcast.com\/\">SpeedCast<\/a>), a leading global satellite telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has acquired the assets of the teleport and satellite services business of NewSat from its receivers. The assets include the land &#038; buildings at NewSat\u2019s teleport facilities in Adelaide and Perth and the associated plant &#038; equipment, as well as most of the customer and supplier contracts. SpeedCast is also retaining 20 key employees, in the operations &#038; engineering department and in sales, including in the US. <\/p>\n<p>NewSat\u2019s customer base is composed of a strong reseller network, blue chip enterprise customers and government customers. These customers are being provided satellite services out of two world-class teleport facilities in Adelaide and Perth. <\/p>\n<p>For SpeedCast, the addition of NewSat\u2019s infrastructure assets in Australia will complement the company\u2019s existing infrastructure in the region, provide expansion capabilities and enhance its ability to deliver high quality satellite communications services to its energy, government and telecom customers in Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to execute on our strategy of growing the business through strong organic growth in the end markets we operate in, and through acquiring value enhancing assets in key locations and\/or industries where we see long-term sustainable growth,\u201d said Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO of SpeedCast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur well established Australian network, augmented by NewSat\u2019s infrastructure assets and customer base, will enable us to expand our presence in the market, in particular with Government and Perth-based customers to which we can sell additional services globally, as well as enhance the level of local support previously available to our customers. NewSat\u2019s state-of-the-art teleport infrastructure and highly experienced operations and engineering team also enhances our ability to serve our customers in Asia-Pacific, thus strengthening our leadership position in the region, while giving us new capabilities to provide services into Middle East and Africa; it represents an attractive platform for future growth,\u201d Mr. Beylier added.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpeedCast International Limited (SpeedCast), a leading global satellite telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has acquired the assets of the teleport and satellite services business of NewSat from its receivers. The assets include the land &#038; buildings at NewSat\u2019s &#8230; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=4702\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1182,319,157],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsat","tag-pierre-jean-beylier","tag-speedcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}