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SES Secures €75 Million of Multi-Year Video Contract Extensions
SES announced today that it has signed multi-year capacity agreements totalling more than €75 million in backlog with multiple German private and public broadcasters. The majority of renewals span several years and will enable millions of satellite TV households across Germany to continue watching SD and HD content, reinforcing SES’s position as the leading global content connectivity provider. The renewal deals include both private and public broadcasters who are looking to maintain the broadest reach, highest quality and maximum reliability for their video content delivery, including: QVC Germany – the live shopping broadcaster is renewing both SD and HD channels Seven.One Entertainment Group – the broadcaster’s channel offering continues to…
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Statement by SES S.A.
In response to rumours in the market, SES S.A. confirms that the company has engaged in discussions regarding a possible combination with Intelsat. At this stage, there can be no certainty that a transaction would materialise. The Board of SES remains fully committed to acting in the best interest of SES and its shareholders. Über SES SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere on earth by distributing the highest quality video content and providing seamless connectivity around the world. As the leader in global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world’s only multi-orbit constellation of satellites with the unique combination of global coverage and high performance, including…
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SES’s Fourth and Fifth C-band Satellites for the United States Successfully Launched
SES announced today that the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites, designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman, were successfully launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, March 17. The two American-made satellites are the fourth and fifth – and final – satellites to be launched as part of SES’s C-band transition plan, following the launch of SES-22 in June 2022 and the tandem launch of SES-20 and SES-21 in October 2022. These satellites are essential parts of SES’s plan to achieve the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) program to clear C-band spectrum to enable wireless operators to…
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SES y el organismo mexicano de comunicaciones CFE TEIT habilitan puntos de acceso de banda ancha gratuitos en todo México con el satélite SES-17
La agencia federal mexicana CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT) seleccionó a SES para implementar más de 1.100 puntos de acceso de banda ancha como parte de la iniciativa del Gobierno Federal, “Internet para todos”. SES anunció hoy que estos sitios están habilitados por el satélite SES-17, de banda Ka y de muy alto rendimiento, y beneficiarán a comunidades en todo el territorio mexicano al brindar acceso gratuito a Internet en áreas públicas. El servicio de SES se entrega como una solución completamente administrada a CFE TEIT, lo que permite que la agencia federal optimice de manera flexible las necesidades de ancho de banda a medida que cambia…
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SES and Mexican CFE TEIT Leverage SES-17 Satellite to Enable Free Broadband Hotspots across Mexico
The Mexican federal agency CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT) selected SES to deploy more than 1,100 broadband hotspots as part of the Federal Government initiative “Internet para todos” (Internet for everyone). These sites are enabled by the very high throughput Ka-band SES-17 satellite and will benefit communities across the entire Mexican territory by providing free Internet access in public areas, SES announced today. SES’s Managed Internet via SES-17 is delivered as a fully managed solution to the CFE TEIT, which allows the federal agency to flexibly optimize bandwidth needs as demand changes while reducing the cost and complexity of delivering satellite connectivity. This collaboration sees the second…
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Luxembourg Announces Intent to Leverage SES’s O3b mPOWER for Europe and NATO
The Government of Luxembourg unveiled its intent to leverage SES’s high-performance, second-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) system – O3b mPOWER – as a critical resilient satcom infrastructure for Luxembourg, its partners and NATO in the areas of defence and security, disaster recovery and more, SES announced today. In a press conference, Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, François Bausch said that the Luxembourg Government is proud to be utilising highly innovative satellite technology that was developed in the country by its leading space player, SES. The programme – MEO Global Services (MGS) – valued at €195 million over 10 years will authorise, when passed by Luxembourg parliament, the acquisition…
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SES, ThinKom and Hughes Enable Multi-orbit Resilient Connectivity for Critical Airborne Missions
SES, ThinKom and Hughes demonstrated revolutionary high-performance multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions, the companies announced today. The open architecture ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal was successfully demonstrated over SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks during testing at ThinKom’s Hawthorne, CA, facilities and on an aircraft in Mojave, CA. To enable roaming across the satellites, the architecture included the Hughes Network Systems software-defined ruggedized HM400 airborne modem. The testing validated the formal release of the latest ThinAir Ka2517 software, interfacing with the Hughes HM400 modem for MEO and GEO operations. The latest generation Ka2517 antenna is designed for full commercial Ka-band and…
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Ivanhoe Mines and SES to Continue Deploying Low-latency Satellite Connectivity in Africa
The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in The Democratic Republic of Congo will continue to enjoy high-speed satellite-based connectivity services as part of a new agreement between Ivanhoe Mines and SES, the two companies announced today. The enhanced partnership builds on a successful five-year relationship between SES and Ivanhoe Mines and comes at a time of significant investment in low-latency, high-capacity solutions in the region following the boom in the African mining industry. The O3b constellation is powering connectivity for leading mining operators, driving a digitalisation revolution for the sector that is helping to increase profitability while improving worker safety and accountability. This model enables operators to cost-effectively scale connectivity as needed…
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SES’s First Two O3b mPOWER Satellites Arrive at Cape Canaveral
SES’s first two O3b mPOWER satellites were delivered to Cape Canaveral last weekend and are scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket mid-December. The O3b mPOWER satellites are part of SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system operating at approximately 8,000 km away from the Earth’s surface, and will deliver high-performance connectivity services to enterprises and governments around the world. The innovative O3b mPOWER ecosystem comprises an extensive ground infrastructure of eight ground stations strategically located around the world, dozens of software service providers, platform and customer terminal partners, as well as an initial constellation of 11 Boeing-built satellites. With a scheduled start-of-service date in Q3 2023 with…
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Digicel Pacific Bolsters Coverage across Papua New Guinea with Additional O3b Capacity from SES
Digicel Pacific, the leading telecommunications provider in the Pacific region, is bolstering its coverage in Papua New Guinea, leveraging SES’s O3b medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellite system to provide its customers with seamless connectivity following damage to the international Pipe Pacific Cable (PPC) which typically connects Papua New Guinea to Australia and rest of the world. The additional O3b services will continue to help Digicel Pacific maintain connectivity during outages caused by such cable breaks while also expanding coverage across the remote parts of the country, a crucial enhancement for the 80% of Papua New Guineans residing in rural areas. The support from SES comes at a critical time for the…
