NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 9th Edition finds a robust market increasingly impacted by the much deliberated Non-GEO-HTS programs, specifically LEO-HTS presenting both challenges and opportunities for the industry. A diverse set of market segments are expected to grow at mixed levels, with current and next-generation solutions generating healthy revenue streams from $1.7 billion in […]
AREWA24, the 24-hour free-to-air Hausa-language entertainment and lifestyle channel, has announced a multi-year capacity lease with Eutelsat Communications on the Eutelsat 16A satellite. Leveraging the satellite’s Ku-band footprint that sweeps across sub-Saharan Africa, the channel is seeling to solidify its position as Northern Nigeria’s premiere Hausa language channel. The powerful footprint of Eutelsat 16A enables […]
A SpaceX rocket, which had been used to make a routine cargo delivery to the International Space Station, successfully returned its potentially reusable upper stage to Earth, itself a major achievement, but the returning stage made a “hard landing” onto its ‘spaceport drone ship’, a floating landing stage in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the […]
Satellite operator SES used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce a wider grouping of organisations to promote the adoption of SAT IP technology. SAT IP technology makes it possible to distribute satellite TV services in an efficient way to any device connected to a domestic IP network. The newly-structured SAT IP Alliance links […]
Declaring that there has “never been a better time” to be in the broadcast industry, Jeremy Darroch, CEO of Sky, has suggested that the enlarged group, following the acquisition of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia, is well placed to meet growing customer expectations of content quality, choice and availability. Participating in a MIPTV Media Mastermind […]
Investors have grown concerned at the impact Russia’s economic downturn might be having on Eutelsat’s profitability. CEO Michel de Rosen took the opportunity of an in-depth interviews with the French press to say Eutelsat had renegotiated its contracts with Russian broadcasters, but that the new contracts had a ‘reverse’ clause allowing contract values to return […]
Intelsat, a global provider of satellite services, and ScheduALL, a provider of Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) solutions for media, broadcast and transmission businesses, have announced the successful implementation and launch of ScheduALL Connector, which enables Intelsat customers to easily and efficiently manage their occasional use (OU) capacity needs. Utilising the ScheduALL Connector interface, Intelsat’s strategic […]
Televisa has renewed and increased capacity on three satellites with coverage of the Americas operated by Eutelsat Communications. The new contract, which includes distribution of HD content, increases capacity on the Eutelsat 117 West A satellite and extends leases on Eutelsat 113 West A and Eutelsat 115 West A for distribution of some of Televisa […]
Mohamed Youssif, ABS’ COO and President/MD of its MENA operatio,n said the satellite operator continues on what he described as a fast-track growth and expansion trajectory. “We launched the business in 2006 and we now have 7 satellites in the fleet, and have reported around 30 per cent growth y-o-y during that time.” Investment fund […]
Australia’s NewSat plan for a new satellite (Jabiro-1) has been in trouble for some time over funding the build and launch of the proposed satellite. Now one of its major backers has pulled back placing the project for Australia’s first independent and locally-owned satellite in jeopardy. The project has already missed some key funding dates, […]