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Published Date: Jan. 24, 1997
Company Name: PanAmSat Corporation
Address: One Pickwick Plaza
Greenwich, Conn. 06830
Main Telephone
Number: 203/622-6664
Chief Executive
Officer: Frederick A. Landman
Chief Financial
Officer: Patrick Costello
Investor Relations
Contact: Kevin Burgoyne
Business number: 203/622-6664
Public Relations
Contact: Rebecca Petruck
Business number: 203/622-6664
e-mail address: petruckr@grn.panamsat.com or 203/622-9163
URL Address: www.panamsat.com
Trading Symbol: SPOT
Industry: Satellite Services Provider
Company description: PanAmSat is the world's first private-sector company to provide global satellite services. It offers satellite-based video and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. services to hundreds of customers worldwide. The company currently operates a four-satellite global system: PAS-1 and PAS-3 over the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean [Lat.,=of Atlas], second largest ocean (c.31,800,000 sq mi/82,362,000 sq km; c.36,000,000 sq mi/93,240,000 sq km with marginal seas). Physical Geography Extent and Seas Region; PAS-2 over the Pacific Ocean Region; and PAS-4 over the Indian Ocean Region. The company plans to launch four additional satellites by early 1998, which will enable it to operate multiple satellites in each ocean region worldwide. The next launch will deploy the PAS-6 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite in March/April 1997. PanAmSat common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors SPOT. In September 1996, PanAmSat and Hughes Electronics Corporation announced an agreement to merge their respective fixed satellite services operations into a new publicly held company. CONTACT: PanAmSat Corporation |
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