[Satellite Today 10-09-09] Korea’s KT Corp. signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat for capacity in Intelsat 17, Intelsat announced Oct. 8.

            KT expects to use the capacity to deliver enhanced broadband VSAT services to government and enterprise customers with remote operations in other parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

            “We will benefit from IS-17’s broad, inter-regional coverage along with the high reliability and resilience for which the Intelsat network is well known as we expand our business into developing regions,” Yeong-Mo Kwon, KT’s vice president, Network Group, said in a statement. “Our customers’ bandwidth requirements are projected to continue growing and the high-powered bandwidth available on IS-17 allows us to support their needs as efficiently as possible.”

            IS-17 is scheduled to be launched in early 2012 and will replace Intelsat 702 66 degrees East. The satellite’s Ku-band payload will cover Russia, the Middle East and Southern Africa, and its C-band payload will provide service over  Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East as well as expand Intelsat’s C-band video distribution community in the Indian Ocean and Asia region.

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