PanAmSat Corporation today announced that the company has opened a regional office in Hong Kong to meet the demand for global satellite-based video and data broadcasting services throughout Greater China and Southeast Asia. PanAmSat’s Hong Kong office will be the first point of contact for broadcasters, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers and corporations throughout the region to receive information on PanAmSat’s worldwide capabilities, including four satellites serving China and Southeast Asia.

‘With the recent strengthening of trade relations between the United States and China, PanAmSat is poised for significant growth in the region,’ said Theodore A. McFarland, PanAmSat’s senior vice president, Pacific Ocean Region, today at CommunicAsia. ‘The opening of the Hong Kong office reflects the tremendous opportunity that these historic market-opening agreements create. The new office also better equips the company to accommodate existing strong demand throughout Southeast Asia.’

PanAmSat is a leading provider of global video and data broadcasting services via satellite. The company builds, owns and operates networks that deliver entertainment and information to cable television systems, TV broadcast affiliates, direct-to-home TV operators, Internet service
providers, telecommunications companies and corporations. With 21 spacecraft in orbit today, PanAmSat has the world’s largest commercial geostationary satellite network. The company will expand its global fleet to 24 spacecraft by mid-2001. For more information on PanAmSat, visit the company’s web site at http://www.panamsat.com.

For further information please contact:

Theodore A. McFarland, Senior Vice President, Pacific Ocean Region
Tel: (203) 662-6664
E-mail: tmcfarland@panamsat.com