Attention Satellite Service Providers!
This information is from a very reliable source inside the said company mentioned below.
This is to formally informed you that Thaicom PCL are curently working on the demand forecast for the new satellite (Thaicom 6), which is planned to be in operation in 2013 at 78.5 E.
The standard C-band footprint shall be similar to the one of Thaicom 5 (regional beam).
So, if you think you have the capacity need by that time, or at the latest, a year after, it's better to start talking now to Handeil - it's International Sales Account Manager via this e-mail: handeilm@thaicom.net, or you can call him directly on his mobile phone: +66892014368.
Securing your satellite bandwidth needs of the future before actually launching the satellite is the most intelligent approach you can do to benefit your satellite related business. Doing it later, surely, it will not only give headaches in the negotiations stage, but it will also give you worries of whether you can secure the capacity or not because of the tight competition for the same capacity as it happened in the past.
Time just flies, so make the first move now!
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Useful Tips When Looking for the Right Satellite Service Provider
When your business is using or will be using satellite service from any satellite service provider to facilitate its implementation, you need to find out some basic, but important information by answering the following questions:
1. Does the company
a. own its satellites?
b. established a better track record in the world market?
c. has a replacement or back-up satellite at least every three years?
2. Does the company’s
a. staffs are satisfied, friendly and happy people?
b. management are transparent and understanding?
3. Does the company’s country
a. peaceful?
b. government accommodating?
If the answers to all of the above questions are “YES”, then you are in the perfect satellite service provider. Otherwise, it’s better for you to find another one.
Why find another provider? Here are some of the reasons:
For the first item, if the satellite service provider does not own it satellites, renting only from others, then just expect that the bandwidth price would be higher than those who own them. If this same satellite service provider doesn’t have a better track record in the world market, then it just tells us that it’s not a better satellite service provider that you should deal with. If it has no record of replacement or back-up satellites at least every three years, then surely your business would not be so secured. If you have looked at your business for long terms, it must satisfy at least these criteria.
In the second item, if the company’s staffs are not satisfied, friendly and happy people, then you might be having trouble when communicating with them. Usually, when working people were not satisfied by how much they are paid for the kind of job they are doing in the company, or not comfortable with the environment they are working with, consequently, they are not friendly and happy people. Thus, expect some unusual working styles from them. Surely, most of them if not all, don’t like to respond to your e-mail communications in time, forgetting your requests, not entertaining you especially during emergency period, not interested to listen to your business concerns when you call them, especially when it involves financial matters, etc. So, if you don’t like to be annoyed by this kind of people, then forget this company and explore another one immediately.
You must be careful also to its management who might not be very transparent at the start. Just use your instinct to sense it right at the beginning of any negotiation, or if you know somebody who was dealing with it before, then they are the good sources of information. But, you need to double check all the information you have gathered on this part. So, check carefully the terms and condition of the agreement before signing it.
Oftentimes, any business is really unpredictable. Your clients might not be able to settle their dues to your company on time, thus affecting your own financial obligations to your satellite service provider. So, in this case, it would be better if your service provider is also a little flexible and understanding. However, you should not abuse it and don’t do it at the very early stage of your business aprtnerships. You need to establish first a year or two the best impressions necessary, especially to its finance department.
Also, you should not make it as your attitude to give any, the same or many reasons why you cannot do it on time. If it happens sometimes, surely it’s understandable and a good company is willing to understand your situation. Otherwise, it’s better to find another satellite service provider when the agreement you had signed with has already expired.
You will only know this part when you are already in business with your satellite service provider. Of course, during the early stage of your business dealing, you must not give any hint to the management you are dealing with to this possible scenario. It will just give you a negative impression from them.
Lastly, you need to determine whether or not the country where your satellite service provider is located is peaceful and no serious political issues. Otherwise, when something happens in the country, like civil war, then you will loss a very huge amount of money and your business will be affected significantly when service interruption occurs due to the above mentioned possible problem.
Also, try to find out whether it’s easy or not to visit your service provider’s country so that when there are serious issues that need your physical presence, you won’t find any difficulty to entering the country at any time.
If the answers to this part are negatives, then it’s a good hint for you to look for another one.
Hope all of the above has given you the lights you need when setting up your business that needs satellite service provider's services.
Good luck!
1. Does the company
a. own its satellites?
b. established a better track record in the world market?
c. has a replacement or back-up satellite at least every three years?
2. Does the company’s
a. staffs are satisfied, friendly and happy people?
b. management are transparent and understanding?
3. Does the company’s country
a. peaceful?
b. government accommodating?
If the answers to all of the above questions are “YES”, then you are in the perfect satellite service provider. Otherwise, it’s better for you to find another one.
Why find another provider? Here are some of the reasons:
For the first item, if the satellite service provider does not own it satellites, renting only from others, then just expect that the bandwidth price would be higher than those who own them. If this same satellite service provider doesn’t have a better track record in the world market, then it just tells us that it’s not a better satellite service provider that you should deal with. If it has no record of replacement or back-up satellites at least every three years, then surely your business would not be so secured. If you have looked at your business for long terms, it must satisfy at least these criteria.
In the second item, if the company’s staffs are not satisfied, friendly and happy people, then you might be having trouble when communicating with them. Usually, when working people were not satisfied by how much they are paid for the kind of job they are doing in the company, or not comfortable with the environment they are working with, consequently, they are not friendly and happy people. Thus, expect some unusual working styles from them. Surely, most of them if not all, don’t like to respond to your e-mail communications in time, forgetting your requests, not entertaining you especially during emergency period, not interested to listen to your business concerns when you call them, especially when it involves financial matters, etc. So, if you don’t like to be annoyed by this kind of people, then forget this company and explore another one immediately.
You must be careful also to its management who might not be very transparent at the start. Just use your instinct to sense it right at the beginning of any negotiation, or if you know somebody who was dealing with it before, then they are the good sources of information. But, you need to double check all the information you have gathered on this part. So, check carefully the terms and condition of the agreement before signing it.
Oftentimes, any business is really unpredictable. Your clients might not be able to settle their dues to your company on time, thus affecting your own financial obligations to your satellite service provider. So, in this case, it would be better if your service provider is also a little flexible and understanding. However, you should not abuse it and don’t do it at the very early stage of your business aprtnerships. You need to establish first a year or two the best impressions necessary, especially to its finance department.
Also, you should not make it as your attitude to give any, the same or many reasons why you cannot do it on time. If it happens sometimes, surely it’s understandable and a good company is willing to understand your situation. Otherwise, it’s better to find another satellite service provider when the agreement you had signed with has already expired.
You will only know this part when you are already in business with your satellite service provider. Of course, during the early stage of your business dealing, you must not give any hint to the management you are dealing with to this possible scenario. It will just give you a negative impression from them.
Lastly, you need to determine whether or not the country where your satellite service provider is located is peaceful and no serious political issues. Otherwise, when something happens in the country, like civil war, then you will loss a very huge amount of money and your business will be affected significantly when service interruption occurs due to the above mentioned possible problem.
Also, try to find out whether it’s easy or not to visit your service provider’s country so that when there are serious issues that need your physical presence, you won’t find any difficulty to entering the country at any time.
If the answers to this part are negatives, then it’s a good hint for you to look for another one.
Hope all of the above has given you the lights you need when setting up your business that needs satellite service provider's services.
Good luck!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Maintaining Your Excellent Business Relationships With Satellite Service Operators/Providers
If you are a customer of a well-established satellite service operators/providers, in order to preserve your excellent business relationships, please don’t do the following, especially when the existing service agreement is expiring or had already expired, or most importantly in a situation where the service provider is running out of the capacity to avoid a very losing business effects on your side.
1. Delaying too much on your monthly due to the company.
2. Ignoring its finance’s repeated reminders, especially the final reminder.
3. Neglecting or ignoring sales account manager’s repeated e-mails or avoiding his/her repeated calls.
In this kind of business, give and take actions are very important. A certain fact is that, they are as important to you as you are to them. As long as you can persevere to preserve well this very important fact in business relationship, then surely, you will not be having trouble with them.
When worst case situation happens, e.g., running out of the capacity, the company you are using service from will always consider first those customers having no problem at all with any of those items above. So, when it comes to clearing up of some resources on the air for better business opportunities, those affected good customers would be taken care of very well so that their business would not be affected significantly. It is done in a manner that the company will even invest its own resources just to take care of the said good customers.
However, for those problematic customers, surely any satellite service operator/provider won’t hesitate to take unfavorable actions to them, thus creating a very huge and negative impact to their business.
It really doesn’t matter whether the satellite service operator/provider will breach the agreement or not, you will always be on the losing side. When it breaches the agreement, surely it can afford to pay it, however, your business operations will be interrupted and will be significantly affected to the point where the amount you may received out of it, couldn’t cover all those losses.
So, take good care of all those items above.
1. Delaying too much on your monthly due to the company.
2. Ignoring its finance’s repeated reminders, especially the final reminder.
3. Neglecting or ignoring sales account manager’s repeated e-mails or avoiding his/her repeated calls.
In this kind of business, give and take actions are very important. A certain fact is that, they are as important to you as you are to them. As long as you can persevere to preserve well this very important fact in business relationship, then surely, you will not be having trouble with them.
When worst case situation happens, e.g., running out of the capacity, the company you are using service from will always consider first those customers having no problem at all with any of those items above. So, when it comes to clearing up of some resources on the air for better business opportunities, those affected good customers would be taken care of very well so that their business would not be affected significantly. It is done in a manner that the company will even invest its own resources just to take care of the said good customers.
However, for those problematic customers, surely any satellite service operator/provider won’t hesitate to take unfavorable actions to them, thus creating a very huge and negative impact to their business.
It really doesn’t matter whether the satellite service operator/provider will breach the agreement or not, you will always be on the losing side. When it breaches the agreement, surely it can afford to pay it, however, your business operations will be interrupted and will be significantly affected to the point where the amount you may received out of it, couldn’t cover all those losses.
So, take good care of all those items above.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Business Deals with Satellite Industry Service Operators/Providers
Dealing directly with people working at the satellite industry or satellite service operators/providers has more advantages than working with those people or third party who called themselves “agent” or “consultant” to represent yourself or your company.
One advantage is you will know directly the exact price of the service you are looking for, and you will be assured that the number you are receiving has not marked-up.
Another advantage is you will have the over-all views of the terms and conditions of the agreement right at the beginning or during the negotiation periods. This is very important for you to understand in order to protect your business interest in the long run. You must be very careful and clear with it.
When looking for a satellite bandwidth, it is very helpful to talk to the right salesperson of the company. To get the accurate pricing, you must clearly indicate the correct frequency you want to occupy. Thus, you must have some background or do some home works on the following terms: Ku-Band or C-Band.
For C-Band, you must also know the difference between the standard C-Band and the Extended C-Band. And there is regional beam and global beam in this band of frequency. Ku-Band is in a higher frequency level and is normally good for DTH applications to take advantage of the small antenna size, or even for Internet service applications. However, it’s not stable during bad weather conditions.
When you ask for the satellite bandwidth pricing, you need to indicate the amount of bandwidth you required if you are going to uplink the channel directly from your location, or the bit rates your channel is going to use. Sometimes, because of the many contributing factors: antenna size, BUC/HPA specifications, modulation type preferred, FEC you want to use, the amount of bandwidth you have in mind would not be enough to satisfy the required channel bit rates. So, to determine this, a link budget calculation should be done first.
One advantage is you will know directly the exact price of the service you are looking for, and you will be assured that the number you are receiving has not marked-up.
Another advantage is you will have the over-all views of the terms and conditions of the agreement right at the beginning or during the negotiation periods. This is very important for you to understand in order to protect your business interest in the long run. You must be very careful and clear with it.
When looking for a satellite bandwidth, it is very helpful to talk to the right salesperson of the company. To get the accurate pricing, you must clearly indicate the correct frequency you want to occupy. Thus, you must have some background or do some home works on the following terms: Ku-Band or C-Band.
For C-Band, you must also know the difference between the standard C-Band and the Extended C-Band. And there is regional beam and global beam in this band of frequency. Ku-Band is in a higher frequency level and is normally good for DTH applications to take advantage of the small antenna size, or even for Internet service applications. However, it’s not stable during bad weather conditions.
When you ask for the satellite bandwidth pricing, you need to indicate the amount of bandwidth you required if you are going to uplink the channel directly from your location, or the bit rates your channel is going to use. Sometimes, because of the many contributing factors: antenna size, BUC/HPA specifications, modulation type preferred, FEC you want to use, the amount of bandwidth you have in mind would not be enough to satisfy the required channel bit rates. So, to determine this, a link budget calculation should be done first.
Satellite Service Inquiries
Today's satellite capacity trend is very obvious to everyone. Many potential satellite service users are hopping from one provider to another hoping to get the best price. However, because of the shortage of the capacity everywhere, the price of this commodity is really very high.
Smart people's strategies to finding satellite service providers differing prices won't work at all times because most of the satellite service providers have their smart people working together to counter this very annoying activities of some people called themselves "consultants".
So, if you are a businessman who has the vision to set up and uplink your own TV channel and you don't know anything, my advise is to visit this site and leave all your inquiries here on the comment portion below of this post and provide your specific requirements and I will get back to you within 24 hours to help you.
Smart people's strategies to finding satellite service providers differing prices won't work at all times because most of the satellite service providers have their smart people working together to counter this very annoying activities of some people called themselves "consultants".
So, if you are a businessman who has the vision to set up and uplink your own TV channel and you don't know anything, my advise is to visit this site and leave all your inquiries here on the comment portion below of this post and provide your specific requirements and I will get back to you within 24 hours to help you.
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