ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

Thailand satellite operator Thaicom said its subsidiary in Japan has acquired a licence to offer its services effective this month by operating the IPStar gateway.

The public-listed company said the construction of the IPStar Japanese gateway, located in the Saitama Prefecture, about 60km from downtown Tokyo, has been completed. The subsidiary office, IPStar Company, will be responsible for the gateway’s operations and for offering the IPStar service in the country.

Dumrong Kasemset, executive chairman of Thaicom and CEO of IPStar Company Japan branch said, IPStar is targeting approximately 200,000 IPStar users in the coming years through the service it is offering in Japan.

Dumrong noted that there are approximately 800,000 households in Japan without broadband access. IPStar plans to provide services to support the Universal Service Obligation (USO) programme targeting the “un-served” and underserved rural areas of Japan for broadband Internet access.

“IPStar will provide end-users packages starting at around US$30 per month,” he added.

Thaicom, which operates IPStar, offers broadcast and multicast solutions that enable broadcast of data to many viewers at the same time. IPStar’s broadcast/multicast applications allow one-way broadcast from the IPStar gateway to all IPStar user terminals for TV/video broadcast for home-users.

Formerly called Shin Satellite Public Company Limited, Thaicom has four satellites in geostationary orbit over the region: Thaicom-1A (launched in 1993), Thaicom-2 (launched in 1994), Thaicom-4 (IPStar) (launched in 2005), and Thaicom-5 (launched in 2006).

 

 

 

 

 

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