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October 2015 EUTELSAT, FACEBOOK TEAM UP ORBCOMM BUYS WAM TECHNOLOGIES On October 5, Eutelsat Communications S.A. On October 6, ORBCOMM Inc. (ORBCOMM) (Eutelsat) and Facebook, Inc. (Facebook) announced that it entered into a definitive CONTACTS: announced an initiative to promote Internet agreement to acquire substantially all of the access in Africa using satellite technologies. The assets of WAM Technologies LLC, a leading Dara A. Panahy 202-835-7521 companies entered into a multi-year agreement provider of remote wireless management and [email protected] with Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) to control solutions for ocean transport refrigerated share access to the entire broadband payload on containers. The acquisition will expand the scope Bijan Ganji the AMOS-6 satellite, being manufactured for of ORBCOMM’s cold chain monitoring business 202-835-7543 Spacecom by Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. to include sea container customers and will [email protected] (payload supplied by MacDonald, Dettwiler advance ORBCOMM’s strategic aim to lead the and Associates Ltd.), to develop a dedicated market in cargo shipment monitoring.

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