Following the Intelsat decision to integrate 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries into the PAS-1 system, Pan American Satellite’s Alpha Lyracom Space Communications has announced a raft of international digital service data agreements to link companies via its private satellite system; contracts include linking Citibank Latino’s Florida data centre with regional branches in Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica and Panama, and Boeing Telecommunications link with NASA’s international observatory in Chile; recent agreements in other parts of the world include a deal with the Volvo Heavy Truck Corp linking Sweden and the US Volvo will be using the link for CAD/CAM videoconferencing, data transfers, private voice and facsimile transmission.
