Last checked at 3 May 2011 07:00
3rd May 2011
Pinnacle Telecom Group plc
("Pinnacle" or the "Company")
Completed Contracts
Royal Wedding
Pinnacle Telecom Group plc, (AIM: PINN) the AIM listed provider of cloud technology based telecommunications solutions, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the contracts to supply network connectivity, which allowed major international news networks to broadcast coverage of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday, April 29th, 2011.
Pinnacle provided voice and data networks opposite Buckingham Palace at Canada Gate, the Mall and Horse Guards Road, along Whitehall and Downing Street and opposite Westminster Abbey, for the BBC, CNN (USA), Seven Network (Australia) and Global Television Network (Canada).
Across the BBC as a whole, a total of 34.7 million people tuned in to watch some part of the royal wedding. More than a million people used BBC iPlayer to watch a portion of the royal wedding coverage and a total of 9.4 million people used the BBC's news website, with more than nine million viewing the page featuring live coverage of the wedding.
Mark Byford, who led BBC coverage of the wedding across TV, radio and online, said: "The huge audience of so many millions who shared the day with the BBC is a testament to all those involved in producing such high-quality and distinctive coverage, and proves once again that the BBC is the broadcaster of choice for audiences during big national events."
Commenting on the completed contracts, Alan Bonner, CEO of Pinnacle, said: "Providing the network infrastructure that underpinned the media broadcast of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, was another great opportunity to showcase Pinnacle's expertise in the deployment of high-profile temporary networks. I am pleased to announce that the event was delivered without a glitch using a combination of fixed line connectivity and next-generation cloud based services."
For further information please contact: | |
Pinnacle Telecom Group plc | |
Alan J Bonner, Chief Executive | 0845 180 74 74 |
Zeus Capital Limited | |
Ross Andrews | 0161 831 15 12 |
Rivington Street Corporate Finance Limited | |
Jon Levinson & Peter Greensmith | 0207 562 33 89 |
All Company announcements & news can be found at: | www.pinnacletelecomgroup.co.uk |
About Pinnacle
Pinnacle Telecom Group plc (AIM: PINN) is a value added, solutions based provider of integrated telecommunications services including IP solutions. It focuses on the SME market across the UK, where it provides a wide range of communications solutions including telecommunications calls, access and consultancy, IT support, mobile solutions - both voice and data and hosted broadband voice services.
Pinnacle is a fully licensed Public Telephone Operator, has its own telephone network and interconnects with BT, Virgin Media and THUS. It has its own hosted voice (VoIP) platforms and engineers and owns Scotland's oldest ISP (and a founder member of Nominet), operating from its data centres in Glasgow, London and Brighton.
Pinnacle's strategy is to be a SME focused, value added, solutions based provider of converged communications services, driven by leveraging organic opportunities as well as through targeted acquisitions. Pinnacle are seeking to acquire and grow businesses to bring together the four main elements of; traditional telephony, hosted cloud based services, IT support and data centres. A particular target area is data centres, where the combination of recurring revenue and a platform to expand our hosted cloud based services, would create a compelling earnings enhancing proposition. A strategic acquisition in this area would potentially be transformational and as data centres are worldwide, we are widening the search parameters.