New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK], a Dutch-based satellite communications company, and KMS/FalconStream, a Kuwaiti information technology firm that provides Internet connectivity services via satellite, have signed a long-term multi-transponder, multi-satellite agreement to offer high-speed Internet access services to customers throughout the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and North Africa.

KMS/FalconStream is using Ku-band capacity on the NSS-6 satellite to deliver Internet traffic, via New Skies’ IPsys Internet connectivity services, directly to end users, as well as to ISPs and telecom companies across the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.