HONG KONG, 3 OCTOBER 2008 – APT Satellite Telecommunications (APTT) in Hong Kong was acquired today by NTT Com Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based telecom provider NTT Communications Corporation.
The HK$161 million (US$20.7 million) stake was acquired from former owners Skywork Corporation (55 per cent) and Singasat Pte Limited (45 per cent), to expand NTT Com Asia's Tai Po Data Center, one of the largest in Hong Kong.
The entire stake in APTT will be transferred from NTT Com Asia to NTT Worldwide Telecommunications Corporation (NTT-WT), another NTT Com wholly owned subsidiary, which owns and operates the NTT Com group’s data centers worldwide.
The NTT Com Group has been offering data center services in Hong Kong since 2001, with dedicated leased space from the Tai Po Data Center as one of its offerings. The acquisition of APTT is expected to expand and enhance the Group’s high-quality data center services for multinational companies. Outside of Japan, the NTT Com Group operates data centers in 27 cities of Asia-Pacific, North and South America and Europe.
Tier 3-equivalent facility
According to standards established by the U.S. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and The Uptime Institute, Tai Po is a Tier 3-equivalent facility capable of concurrently maintaining infrastructure without a single point of failure.
For risk diversification, the facility uses infrastructure created with the networks of multiple telecommunication carriers to realize completely redundant systems for commercial power supply, air conditioning, uninterrupted power supply (UPS), and power generation and distribution. Customer service offers trilingual support (Japanese, English and Chinese) on a 24/7 basis.
