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Artist rendition of the SES 9 satellite.
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[Satellite TODAY 08-05-13] Philippine direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV provider Global Satellite (GSAT) has contracted its fourth transponder on SES’s NSS 11 satellite. The multi-year deal will see the transfer of current capacity usage by GSAT from NSS 11 to SES 9, scheduled to launch in 2015. SES 9 will be providing expansion capacity for DTH, enterprise, mobility and government services across the region.
GSAT, the satellite division of First United Broadcasting Corp (FUBC), launched its DTH service in 2008 on the NSS-11 Ku-band satellite, providing subscribers with access to a mix of international programs including English, Mandarin, Korean, Tagalog, Japanese and Spanish channels. With this additional capacity, GSAT will be offering 12 high definition (HD) channels and 47 standard definition (SD) channels to more than 200,000 subscribers across the Philippine archipelago.
“We are delighted to confirm that GSAT, our long-term customer on NSS 11, will become a key anchor customer on SES 9,” said Deepak Mathur, senior vice president commercial, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East at SES.
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