Media Networks Latin America Signs Major DTH Capacity Agreement with SES
22.05.12
SES (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG) today announced that Media Networks Latin
America (MNLA) has signed a long-term capacity deal to expand its pay-TV
service across Central America and the Caribbean.
Under the milestone partnership, MNLA, a unit of Telefonica Digital, has
secured multiple transponders on SES’ AMC-4 satellite in order to launch
a new DTH wholesale pay-TV service reaching new audiences with a
combined lineup of international and regional SD and HD channels.
The SES spacecraft AMC-4, strategically located at 67 degrees West,
allows MNLA to meet the DTH demand in Central America and the Caribbean
as well as other future growth markets with its existing ground
infrastructure, including its teleport in Lima, Peru.
AMC-4 was deployed at 67 degrees West in 2010 and provides expansion
capacity in Latin America for a broad range of applications, such as
rural telecommunications, VSAT networks, e-learning, pay-TV and mobile
broadband. With the relocation of AMC-3 to 67 degrees West at the end of
February, which was announced yesterday, SES is further strengthening
and complementing its coverage and offering from this orbital position.
Source: Virtual-Strategy Magazine