Gilat extends service with Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications throughout 2011

 

 

5 January 2010

 

Gilat announced that the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications in Colombia, with the National Fund of Development (FONADE), has extended and amended the agreements for the provision of services under the Rural Communitarian Telephony and Telecentros projects for an additional one-year term, through December 31st, 2011. The extended service agreements are valued at approximately $21 million.

 

These service agreements are for projects that provide telephony and public data access to remote communities throughout rural Colombia. The current extension of the agreements covers approximately 1600 sites that will be served by Gilat throughout 2011 and includes certain performance indicators and schedules of new installations. The new sites include telephony sites, small community internet access Telecenters known locally as CACI sites, and larger Telecenters. The Telecenters are equipped with telephones, computers, printers, scanners, faxes and webcams all provided by Gilat.