PETAH TIKVA, Israel -- Gilat SatelliteNetworks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) today announced that it has received neworders from Costa Rica's national telecommunications operator,Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), for the deployment ofGilat's VSAT platforms to provide broadband services to approximately1,000 new sites.

For Costa Rica's corporate sector, Gilat will provide a new SkyEdge IIbroadband satellite network, to the country's state-owned Internetoperator, Radiografica Costarricense, (RACSA), a subsidiary of ICE, toserve 500 corporate and financial customers. The new network willenable the delivery of a wide variety of broadband services, includinginteractive data applications such as videoconferencing, virtualprivate networks, VoIP services, IP multicasting and broadband Internetconnectivity. Gilat's SkyEdge II is ideally suited to meet themission-critical application requirements of the corporate andfinancial services industry such as high-speed connectivity to allowhigh throughput for file transfer. Other benefits include the deliveryof voice-quality telephony, advanced Quality of Service (QoS) toprioritize application data traffic, reliability and high availability.

ICE is also expanding its existing SkyEdge network to provide internetaccess and toll-quality telephony to an additional 500 rural locations,meeting its Universal Service Obligations. The network will alsoprovide satellite backhaul for wireless Internet access to thosecitizens.

ICE is a long-standing Gilat customer, having deployed Gilat VSATnetworks nationwide since 2005.

"We are pleased to be able to add Gilat's SkyEdge II sophisticatedtechnology to offer broadband services to the country's corporatesector. With its high efficiency and adaptivity, SkyEdge II gets themost out of the satellite link while providing high-speed connectivityto allow high throughput for file transfer; voice quality fortelephony; and other critical services for this sector," said ICE Ing.Douglas Cubero. "Gilat has demonstrated a very high level of commitmentto customer support and a solid track record for providing superiortelecommunications services. The addition of the new SkyEdge II networkin addition to the SkyEdge network expansion, will help us to continueto serve the needs of our citizens in an efficient manner."

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT)