MDS America
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| MDS America, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters |  Stuart, Florida, USA |
| Key people | Kirk Kirkpatrick |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Products | Direct broadcast television, Internet |
| Employees | (MDSA 20) |
| Parent | Ardastra Group Ltd. |
| Website | [1] |
MDS America or MDS America, Inc (MDSA) is a startup wireless Internet and wireless cable TV technology provider based in Stuart, Florida. MDS America was the primary party responsible for the invalidation of Northpoint Technology Inc's patents having to do with terrestrial rebroadcast of satellite signals. This cleared the way for the United States FCC to auction the frequency band of 12.2 - 12.7GHz which the FCC has christened MVDDS .
MDS America has become the primary power in the nascent MVDDS market.
MDS Operations, an affiliated company, participated in recent auctions in 2005 and 2006 held by the FCC in which this 12.2 -12.7 GHz frequency was sold to the public. MDSO acquired rights in both auctions for 80 markets covering more than 15 million television households in the US.
In early 2006, MDSA landed a contract with South Coast Television in Ireland to build that companies first Digital Terrestrial Broadcast system. Installation started in September of 2006.
[edit] Management
- Kirk Kirkpatrick: Founder, President, and CEO
- Peter Blond: Exec. Vice President and COO
- Grigory Kholodkov: Chief Engineer MDSA
- Sharif Rabah: Vice President, Sales and Marketing
- Allen Quinn: Vice President, Operations
- Gopiballava Flaherty: CIO
