AIRPORT CITY BUSINESS PARK, Israel, July 16,
2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Station711, the mobile satellite arm of RRsat Global
Communications Network Ltd (NASDAQ: RRST), an innovative and
flexible Mobile Satellite Services provider, announced today that
it has been chosen by Telecom Italia, one of the world's leading
telecom operators, which offers a wide range of services, ranging
from fixed, to mobile, to satellite communication ones, to provide
them with the FleetBroadband customized and fully branded web
management platform.
"Telecom Italia has decided to invest
in enrichiching its offer
of
Inmarsat FleetBroadband services with
one of the most advanced suite of value added
services", commented Silvio
Laureti, Vice President of Telecom Italia, responsible for
New Product and Services Innovation. "We
are strongly committed to improve
our satellite offering with solutions
that best fit our customers' needs,
like having a tight cost control
over Inmarsat FleetBroadband
traffic."
Station711 FleetBroadband web platform provides a suite of
customized management and control tools for Inmarsat FleetBroadband
services, including provisioning, spending control, hierarchy
access level, billing and account management, and traffic
monitoring. The powerful platform is an easy to use suite of
tools designed to meet the needs of MSS Service Providers, or
anyone requiring a robust customer management system. An easy
web-based administration interface allows Telecom Italia to provide
their customers and end-users with a comprehensive self management
dynamic value-added service for billing, reseller billing, customer
care, provisioning and customer self management.
"Station711 offers a strategic platform for extending
technical and marketing capabilities", commented
Ohad
Har-Lev, Managing Director Mobile
Satellite Services, RRsat. "This
enables us to provide our partners with the combination
of our strong technical backing and their
own branding". "We are
particularly proud that Telecom Italia has
chosen Station711 platform. We are constantly working to create
innovative solutions enabling customer value and new business
opportunities".
About Station711
Being the mobile satellite arm of RRsat
Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), Station711
provides communications solutions to the maritime, terrestrial and
aviation markets. As Inmarsat's 4th generation distribution
partner, with our own LES for existing and evolved Inmarsat
services and via our own global teleports and fiber optics network,
Station711 has you covered to guarantee seamless global
communications anywhere, anytime. The Station711 platform, based on
the most advanced technologies, can be integrated into yours
existing communications infrastructures. This unique capability
results in significant cost and resource savings. For more
information, visit http://www.station711.com
About RRsat Global Communications
Network Ltd.
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides
global, end-to-end, content management and distribution services to
the rapidly expanding television and radio broadcasting industries,
covering more than 150 countries. Through its RRsat Global Network,
composed of satellite and terrestrial fiber optic capacity and the
public Internet, RRsat provides high-quality and flexible global
distribution services 24/7 to more than 630 channels reaching
multiplatform operators, Internet TV and direct-to-home
viewers worldwide and also offers occasional use services
for sports, news and events with a fleet of flyaways and over
10 transportable satellite news gathering services (SNG)
units. More than 130 television and radio channels use
RRsat's advanced production and playout centers comprising
comprehensive media asset management services. Visit the company's
website http://www.rrsat.com
About Telecom Italia
Telecom Italia offers infrastructures and technological
platforms that allow voice and data to be transformed into advanced
telecommunications services - as well as the latest ICT and Media
solutions. These tools cater for the Group's as well as the
country's growth.
Telecom Italia offers a complete range of dependable latest
generation fixed, mobile and satellite communication services.
Attention towards the needs of its customers and technological
innovation are at the base of the company's strategy.
As a result, Telecom Italia provides satellite services
worldwide, with customers in Italy, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, the USA, China,
South Korea, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Israel, Bahrain, Russia, Algeria and Cyprus.
For more information visit
http://www.wholesale.telecomitalia.com
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, including statements regarding (i) the growth
of our business and the television and radio broadcasting
industries, (ii) our expectation to expand our client base
and sell additional services to our existing client
base, (iii) our ability to successfully integrate the teleports we
acquired, (iv) our ability to develop and commercialize
the RRinternetTV service, (v) our expectation to extend
the average length of our contracts in the future,
(vi) our ability to develop, expand and commercialize
our HD Platform, (vii) our ability to report future
successes, (viii) our ability to expand our activity in the North
American market, (ix) our ability to develop and expand our
relationship with mobile satellite services distribution partners;
and (x) our intention to distribute dividends in the
future and the size of any dividends declared. These
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and
uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions,
estimates and projections about the companies and the industry as
of the date of this press release. The company undertakes no
obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in its
expectations, except as may be required by law. Forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause
actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the
forward-looking statements, including the risks indicated in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For more
details, please refer to our SEC filings and the amendments
thereto, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year
ended December 31, 2011and our
Current Reports on Form 6-K.
Information in this press release
concerning Inmarsat and Telecom Italia is based on information
provided by these organizations and has not been independently
verified by RRsat.
Press Contact:
Avi Koren, Marketing Director
Tel: +972-54-9955617
Email: avi.koren@station711.com
SOURCE RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd