FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2003
Pak satellite to be operational from Feb 1
PTI
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's first communication satellite would become fully operational from February one, officials said on Thursday.
The first phase of functionality test conducted this week for the satellite named Paksat-1 was successful and it would start operations according to the schedule after few more tests, an official of the ministry of information technology and telecommunications told the media here.
He said the test process of Paksat-1 started in December last year.
The satellite would help further decrease the bandwidth rates as it would make available a huge bandwidth capability.
The satellite, which would also be used for transmission of new TV channels, has 30 C-band and 4 Ku-band transponders on board.
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