Pan American Satellite, of Greenwich, Connecticut, has announced that it will be supplying the Honduras government-owned telecommunications company Hondutel – Empresa Hondurena de Telecomunicaciones – with a North Spot Beam transponder on the PAS-1 satellite, which provides full-time domestic support for all of Latin America: the PAS-1 transponder will provide a satellite capacity of up to 12 voice channels at each site, and will offer facsimile, data and telex services: linked to a central hub near the capital, Tegucigalpa, around 30 fixed and portable stations in rural Honduras are projected, with small farmers and coffee growers targeted as main users.
