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Bolivia's Chinese-made satellite brings in $16 mln

Bolivia's Chinese-made Tupac Katari satellite has generated 16 million U.S. dollars of income in a little more than a year in orbit, the Bolivian News Agency (ABI) said Tuesday.
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Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite has started operating.

The satellite is expected to provide internet and mobile phone connections to the estimated 3.3 million Bolivians in areas currently not connected to the telecommunications grid.
President Evo Morales said that thanks to the satellite, the price of internet, TV, and mobile phone services would go down.
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Bolivian crowds cheer Tupak Katari satellite launch

People in Bolivia have been celebrating the launch of the country's first telecommunications satellite.
Cheering crowds gathered in front of big television screens in La Paz to watch the rocket carrying the satellite blast off from a base in China.
The satellite is named Tupak Katari, after an indigenous hero who fought Spanish colonial rule.
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China to launch Bolivian satellite in 2013

China would put Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite into orbit in December 2013, China's Ambassador to Bolivia Shen Zhiliang announced Thursday.
The manufacturing process of the satellite had been completed in China, Shen said, and technicians from both countries were working on the final design, which was expected to be finished by March 2013.
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The Bolivian government and a Chinese corporation on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding on helping Bolivia launch communications satellite "Tupac Katari."
The agreement was signed by Executive Director of the Bolivian Space Agency Willy Herbas and Yin Liming, president of the Great Wall Industries Corporation (GWIC) which is authorised by the Chinese government to produce and launch satellites.
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