Intelsat Expands Its GXS Network Broadband Service Throughout the Asia-Pacific Region

KT Corporation to provide teleport hub services for Intelsat’s GXS offerings

Pembroke, Bermuda, 26 March 2009

Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced that KT Corporation, the leading communications service provider for Korea and the Asia-Pacific region, will host two new GXS Network Broadband hubs for Intelsat in the Asia-Pacific region. This provides Intelsat access to KT Corporation’s teleport facilities in South Korea, expanding the managed services portfolio Intelsat markets to its growing customer base. The Intelsat GXS services include Intelsat’s GXS Internet Trunking Service, Network Broadband and International Private Line.

“KT Corporation is very pleased to provide teleport hub services for Intelsat’s hybrid network broadband services in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Sung-Man Kim, KT Corporation’s Senior Executive Vice President, Network Group. “Furthermore, KT Corporation is confident that it will satisfy Intelsat’s customers’ needs through the two regional teleports which will be operated by KT Corporation.”

“With mobility services growing in importance for our business, particularly in the maritime and aeronautical sectors, the KT Corporation gateway gives Intelsat contiguous global access to support our customers’ mobility offerings,” said Jay Yass, Intelsat’s Vice President, Network Services. “It will enhance gateway teleport antenna access to certain beams on Intelsat satellites from 60º E to 180º E, allowing us to expand our GXS services for our growing customer base in the region.”

Intelsat GXS is a portfolio of services that bundles space segment with teleports, points of presence and terrestrial network infrastructure. The GXS network is designed to provide end-to-end support for data, media, trunking, broadband Internet, VoIP, WiFi hotspots, distance learning and mobility solutions worldwide.

Under a separate contract, KT Corporation became a distributor of Intelsat’s GXS Network Broadband Global Maritime service. KT Corporation maritime customers are benefiting from Intelsat’s service that offers an always-on, true broadband connection, a global monitoring system and automatic beam switching technology.

Intelsat will be exhibiting at Booth #109 at SATELLITE 2009, the leading tradeshow for the global satellite industry, which is being held at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., 25-27 March.

About KT Corporation

KT, Korea's top integrated wired/wireless communications service provider, has been Korea's leader in the development of the information & communications business for the last 25 years. In that same time, it has helped turn Korea into an IT powerhouse with the world's leading technology in the operation of broadband service. With the commercial launch of the world's first wireless broadband service (WiBro), KT is paving the way for U-Korea with ubiquitous infrastructure through which people can share information wherever they are.

About Intelsat

Intelsat is the leading provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. For more than 40 years, Intelsat has been delivering information and entertainment for many of the world’s leading media and network companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and governmental agencies. Intelsat’s satellite, teleport and fiber infrastructure is unmatched in the industry, setting the standard for transmissions of video, data and voice services. From the globalization of content and the proliferation of HD, to the expansion of cellular networks and broadband access, with Intelsat, advanced communications anywhere in the world are closer, by far.

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Intelsat
nick.mitsis@intelsat.com
+1 202 944 7044

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