PINNACLE Telecom has clinched one of its biggest contracts by agreeing a deal to provide communications infrastructure for the London Olympics.
The Paisley business will provide internet and telecoms services to BBC International and global broadcasters covering the games and the Paralympics.
Through agreements with international data carriers, Pinnacle will help send broadcast images and sound to countries around the world from the 22-storey Stratford Broadcast Tower at the edge of the Olympic Park.
Pinnacle, which has worked with the BBC on events such as the royal wedding and the Pope's visit, admitted it will have to scale up and add staff.
Chief executive Alan Bonner said: "We have been negotiating this unique opportunity for a long time.
"This is by far our biggest contract with the BBC. It is a huge one for us.
"We can't put a value on it yet because as the scope and requirement change you never really know until it's all over.
"Some of it depends on how many of the broad-casters turn up. You would expect the vast proportion will and we will have a hell of a job on our hands to meet the requirements.
"There's no doubt we will have to add people. We have 82 people in the whole business and we will probably have as many people as that on site in the run-up to the Games alone."
Jamie Hindhaugh, BBC head of production for 2012, said: "The services that Pinnacle will provide at the Stratford Broadcast Tower will enable each inter-national broadcaster to have their own data, telecoms and switchboard services."
The Olympics run from July 27 to August 12 and the Paralympics from August 29 and September 9.
Pinnacle's share price ended the day up 12.9% to 0.35 pence.
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