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Gilat Wins First Orders for its "two-way Paging" VSAT
Israel - July 20, 1998 - Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has received an order from PageNet, one of the largest paging operators in the US, for an enhanced version of Skystar Advantage(TM) to facilitate the communication of Narrowband Personal Communication Services (NPCS), commonly called "two-way paging".

Gilat, the largest supplier of one-way SCPC VSATs to the satellite-based paging market, received the order from GE Capital Spacenet Services, Inc. (GE Spacenet), which will provide VSAT equipment and services to PageNet. Gilat will act as GE Spacenet's representative to the paging market for the companies' jointly-developed "NPCSkystar" VSAT product, which has been tailored to meet the technical requirements of the paging industry.

"Among our first two-way paging orders from GE Spacenet, PageNet's is the largest at almost a thousand sites," offered Gilat President and Chief Operating Officer Amiram Levinberg. "We have developed a unique paging architecture leveraging on our extensive experience in one-way paging, that supports extreme environmental conditions, an upgrade path from one-way to two-way and interface with all major paging base-station equipment."

PageNet Chief Technical Officer Bill Scott added, "Based on our past experience with Gilat's OneWay(TM) equipment, we are confident that the GE Spacenet-Gilat product represents the best available solution for our two-way network."

Gilat pioneered the use of VSATs in paging networks in 1991, when its OneWay VSAT was installed at Hutchison Paging and Mercury Paging in the UK. At the time, paging messages were broadcast from the operators' headquarters to regional base stations via satellite, then redistributed to individual subscribers via radio.

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