[Satellite Today 06-04-09] SES Americom-New Skies won a three-year capacity contract with BT for nearly three full transponders of C-band capacity on the NSS-10 satellite, SES announced June 3.
    BT will extend its IP network into remote regions of Brazil, expanding its SES-owned capacity from 92 to 104 megahertz of C-band in order to provide IP trunking services to link businesses based in Manaus and other rural stretches of Northern Brazil to its teleport and Internet access point in São Paulo.
    A portion of the purchased bandwidth will support single channel per carrier service and distance learning applications throughout Brazil.
    This is the second Latin American capacity contract won by SES for NSS-10 this week. Telefonica del Peru secured capacity on the spacecraft, located at the 322.5 degrees East, to provide GSM backhaul to deliver corporate voice, data, broadband and mobile phone services for.