NewSat (NWT) announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire valuable space assets in the form of orbital slots for accommodating satellites. Currently licensed to AP Kypros Satellites Limited, a range of frequency assignments at several orbital slots will be exclusively sublicensed to NewSat. The agreement covers seven orbital slots in locations that cover all continents of the globe and are ideal for NewSat’s focus on high value customers and growth markets. The slots will be used to accommodate a fleet of Jabiru satellites, providing telecommunication services in the C Band, Ku Band and Ka Band spectrum. The agreement, which will be governed within the International Regulatory framework, gives NewSat exclusive use of one slot, 50% of the frequencies of another two slots and options over a further four slots. The agreement is subject to customary regulatory and other closing conditions. NewSat will pay consideration in the form of five cash instalments and a sixth and final instalment in ordinary shares on December 1 2011.
“The slots are extremely valuable assets with senior filing status, outstanding geographic footprint and certainly enough capacity to see NewSat’s long-term future assured. We are now in a position to launch multiple satellites, each of which could generate in excess of $100 million of EBITDA per year” said NewSat CEO Adrian Ballintine. He added, “Achievement of this milestone is more significant than the 2005 acquisition of NewSat’s teleports. Orbital slots are the lifeblood of satellite operators, and to have multiple slots is the goal of long-term entrants.”
NewSat Limited is Australia’s largest specialist provider of satellite capacity delivering voice, data and video communications via satellite. With its unique to Australia teleport infrastructure in Perth and Adelaide, NewSat provides a full range of managed satellite communication services and has established a reputation as the partner of choice for governments, corporations and private enterprises. Today, NewSat has the ability to provide coverage to 75% of the globe; from Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, across the Indian Ocean extending into Europe and across the Pacific Ocean, reaching into the west coast of the USA.



