Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and SatLink Communications have been selected to provide Pan-African distribution services on AMOS-5 at 17°E for the Orange African Under-20 Football Championship competition. This is a direct result of the successful broadcast of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in January-February by AMOS-5. The current competition is […]
Eutelsat has talked about a new class of satellite for some months, but it seems an official order is now imminent. Dubbed Eutelsat Quantum, this new breed of satellite is a software defined craft that permits its clients to “actively define the performance and flexibility they need from a satellite”. Eutelsat has been developing its […]
EUsatcom, the European Professional Satellite Association, is committed to making 2015 a milestone year for the organisation, with several initiatives underway whose shared goal is to raise awareness and participation in EUsatcom, as well as to promote the European satellite industry. EUsatcom wants to stimulate cross-industry co-operation and thus bring value to its members and […]
Pay-TV revenues in the Asia Pacific region (22 countries) will grow by $10 billion between 2014 and 2020, according to Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Asia Pacific Forecasts report estimates that pay-TV revenues will reach $41.52 billion by 2020.
Azam Media, owned by Tanzanian conglomerate Bakhresa Group, is ramping up satellite capacity through a new transponder leased on the powerful Eutelsat 7B satellite. Complementing capacity used on the copositioned Eutelsat 7A satellite, it will host new services for the rapidly growing AzamTV pay-TV platform. Launched just 18 months ago, AzamTV already counts 200,000 subscribers […]
Backed by SES and the likes of Google, Liberty Global and Allen & Co, the satellite constellation of O3b has announced a number of African contracts. An ISP and pay-TV operator based in Chad, Presta Bist, will use O3b as their backhaul provider from Chad to the internet. Hormund Telecom will use O3b’s satellites to […]
Harmonic, an expert in video delivery infrastructure, has announced that Al-Baghdadia, an independent Iraqi-owned Arabic-language satellite channel based in Cairo, has selected Harmonic equipment for its Egyptian Media Production City facilities to enable a smooth transition to HD. Supplied by Cairo systems integrator AV Solutions, Harmonic’s market-leading Spectrum media servers, together with the WFS file-based […]
Research company IPSOS states that SES-backed Middle East satellite operator YahLive is now reaching more than 25 million Farsi-speaking viewers in the greater MENA region. IPSOS says the most watched content is movies with 62 per cent of respondents saying that movies are what they watch most often. News was next (61 per cent), series […]
Asia’s leading satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced the launch of a new brand identity, a new tagline and a newly redesigned website. This initiative, AsiaSat says, underscores its renewed commitment to innovation and improvement to deliver services that best meet the changing needs of its customers and partners. “AsiaSat has […]
Contracts have been signed covering the launch of two satellites, SES-15, an all-electric satellite under construction by Boeing and due for launch in Q2/2017. SES-15 is going to a new orbital location serving North America. SES-15 will weigh about 2300 kgs at launch, and will go to 129 degrees West and deliver – amongst other […]