| New Skies sales VP for India, the Middle
East and Africa, Srini Prasanna was quoted in an official release
saying, "New Skies enjoys a solid share of the fixed satellite
services market in the Indian subcontinent. This has been gained through
years of close collaboration with customers and the commitment of
powerful and highly advanced satellite resources.
"We are delighted to welcome Raju to the New Skies team. He
is an experienced sales executive and brings with him excellent
contacts and customer relationships throughout the region.
"Raju's expertise and experience in these markets will ensure
New Skies maintains a strong presence by promoting the strengths
and advantages of our global communications infrastructure for the
delivery of video, Internet, and data and voice services worldwide."
The release adds that before joining New Skies, Pulugurtha worked
at Intelsat in Washington DC for 10 years as the regional director
of sales, South Asia. During his tenure at Intelsat, he worked in
India heading up the regional support center in Chennai. Pulugurtha
has also worked at India's department of telecommunications for a
decade.
He was involved in setting up satellite earth stations in Mumbai
and Chennai. He was also involved in the development of VSat technology
at the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) in Bangalore.
New Skies satellites claims to be one of only four fixed satellite
communications companies with truly global satellite coverage. It
offers video, data, voice and Internet communications services to
a range of telecommunications carriers, broadcasters, large corporations
and Internet service providers around the world. New Skies claims
to have five satellites in orbit and ground facilities around the
world.
The company is in the process of constructing an additional spacecraft.
The company also has secured certain rights to make use of additional
orbital positions for future growth.
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