TeleSystems Opens Maritime Sales Offices In New York And Los Angeles

COMSAT TeleSystems, Inc. recently announced the opening of maritime sales offices in New York City and Los Angeles. The offices will provide marketing support for the company's MCS-9000 communications satellite ship earth station and its new ship weather routing, tracking, and port forecasting service—the Masters' Weather Center.

The New York office will be headed by Edward Dooley, TeleSystems, Northeast maritime sales manager, and Lawrence Moore, manager of the Masters' Weather Center. It is located at 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004; telephone (212) 514-7100. The West Coast office, located at 100 East Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Thousand Oaks, Calif., telephone (805) 497-3722, will operate under the direction of David Siemens, who recently joined Tele- Systems as manager of maritime marketing for the western United States and the Far East.

Designed and manufactured by TeleSystems, the MCS-9000 offers a full range of satellite communications capabilities. It features extremely compact below-decks equipment, advanced terminals software, and a passively stabilized antenna system. With the recent acquisition of the Masters' Weather Center, TeleSystems has become the only supplier of maritime terminals that also provides operations-critical environmental information.

COMSAT TeleSystems, Inc. located in northern Virginia, designs, manufactures, markets, and provides worldwide service and support for a complete line of advanced analog and digital communications equipment and systems.