Intersputnik and Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) have signed an agreement on cooperation in using frequency assignments in using orbit and frequency resource.
RSCC is one of the 25 national Signatories of Intersputnik, which unites 26 member countries from Europe, Asia, Latin America and South-East Asia and offers access to the satellite resources of the Russian constellation.
Commenting on the agreement, RSCC DG Alexey Volin noted that it offers “a new cost-effective solution to RSCC customers willing to have a single-entry point for communications services in any region of the world. It is a well-known fact, that no operator has got 100% coverage of the globe or solid competences in non-geostationary telecommunications systems. The agreement gives us an opportunity to participate in using the orbit and frequency resource according to the model commonly known as VNO. Cooperation under this model allows avoiding substantial capital investment otherwise required to set up and maintain a satellite network for narrow and new market segments and, at the same time, broadens the service capabilities of RSCC as an all-purpose satellite operator”.
Intersputnik DG Ksenia Drozdova added: “the agreement is interesting because it introduces a totally new business model for cooperation between operators. Strictly in line with the organisation’s fundamental documents and following the decisions of the governing bodies, we offered the signatories cooperation in using frequency assignment in geostationary and other orbits to implement projects on the joint use of satellite capacity and to address the needs of both the signatory and the organisation. It is important for us that the satellite resource used by Intersputnik in the signatories’ available frequency bands according to the agreement on the establishment of the organisation makes up Intersputnik’s space segment, which can be used along with Intersputnik’s own resource. It is a great honour for Intersputnik that it was RSCC, which has the largest satellite fleet among all our signatories, that became the first operator to sign this innovative agreement. I confess that after transition from RSCC to take a position at Intersputnik I am doubly pleased that we have successfully managed not only to preserve but also to obviously strengthen the good traditions of reliable partnership and mutually enriching cooperation”.
