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Waving not drowning

Avanti has today announced a refinancing of its operations with the existing bondholders providing an additional $130m of new funds on completion, with a further $112m of liquidity provided by potential interest payment deferrals up to April 2018. The company can now proceed to more than double its available Ka-band capacity by launching the HYLAS 4 satellite later this year. The focus will be on filling the capacity at planned pricing, particularly to sub Saharan Africa. Revised guidance of 35% top line growth implies a longer journey for equity holders, but that can at least continue. When 2016 accounts are available, we will reinstate our revised forecasts and a view of the equity potential.
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AVANTI COMMUNICATIONS

Avanti Communications Group is engaged in commercial exploitation of its space and network assets. These assets include its spectrum rights, satellites, intellectual property and ground station assets. Co.'s network and other assets include broadband packages, managed capacity, fully integrated project, raw capacity, pure spectrum and a number of other product categories and models to suit customer and market circumstances. Co.'s technology platform is made up of two operational satellites and one hosted payload in orbit, two satellites under construction, and a ground segment infrastructure delivering comprehensive coverage of Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Andy Chambers

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