- BUSINESS — ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, announced their SkyWAN® was selected by Internet Solutions (IS), a leading South-African converged communications service provider, to set up a VSAT network for the Pan-African trade association COMESA. COMESA will connect its offices throughout the continent to its headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia, for office applications such as internet access, file transfer, phone, fax and email. ND SatCom implement will the SkyWAN®-based VSAT network including engineering and training.
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BUSINESS — Moving On Up… Telenor… As of September 1, 2008, DTAC CEO Sigve Brekke will join Telenor’s Group Executive Management as head of Telenor Region Asia. Brekke succeeds Arve Johansen, who returns to the Telenor Headquarters in Norway as a special advisor to the CEO. Tore Johnsen will take over as new CEO of DTAC. Prior to joining DTAC in 2002, Brekke worked at Telenor’s Singapore office for three years, and has also served as the Deputy Minister (State Secretary) of Defence in Norway in 1993. Brekke held positions at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, and had an associate position at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in the USA. Under his supervision, DTAC has become a major mobile operator in Thailand with 16.7 million customers (Q1 ’08).
Deputy CEO Arve Johansen has been heading Telenor Region Asia since the establishment in 2006. He joined Telenor in 1989 and has held a number of positions in the Group. He has served as CEO of Telenor Mobile from 1999 to 2005 and was CEO of Telenor International AS from its inception in 1993 to 1999. At the expiration of his appointed assignment period on September 1st, Arve Johansen will serve as a special advisor to the President and CEO until he retires in June 2009.
Replacing Brekke as CEO of DTAC is Tore Johnsen, CEO of Telenor Pakistan since it was established in 2004. Before moving to Pakistan, Johnsen served four years as Strategy Director, and later CEO, of DiGi Telecommunications in Malaysia. He joined the Telenor Group in 1974, and he has held a number of managerial positions and international assignments. Johnsen holds a Master of Science in addition to studies in International Business Management. A new CEO of Telenor Pakistan will be announced in due time before September 1st—Fornebu, Bangkok -
BUSINESS — Moving Up On Up… Thales Alenia Space Italy…There has been a change in the corporate structure at Thales Alenia Space Italy. Newly appointed as President and CEO is Luigi Pasquali, who will be responsible for international matters in the parent company as Deputy to the CEO of Thales Alenia Space, Reynald Seznec. Pasquali is replacing Carlo Alberto Penazzi. Prior to this appointment, Pasquali was Chief Operating Officer of Telespazio – the Finmeccanica Group company that, together with Thales Alenia Space, forms the Space Alliance. Before that he was previously Director of the Telecommunications Department at Alenia Spazio (before the company was renamed Thales Alenia Space Italy), in charge of communications satellite systems for defense and security, commercial applications and broadband development—Cannes, France
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