What have been ABS’s most significant deals and developments in the past 6-12 months? In the past 12 months, ABS has seen unprecedented growth of our business. We achieved our fill factor from 50% to 90% and increased the amount of television channels available on our satellite to over 90 channels, making us one of the top satellite distribution platforms for CATV distribution in the Indian Ocean Region. ABS has also made over $5million investments in teleport facilities for video and data … [Read more...] about ABS-2 reaches for the sky
Satellites
High five for AsiaSat
“we have made some notable achievements over the past year. In the area of satellite transponder leasing, we renewed the contracts with several major customers and added new clients from the broadcast sector that successfully expanded the broadcast neighbourhood of our satellite fleet and diversified the programming content. These included several thematic channels such as the luxury lifestyle HD channel LUXE TV, urban music channel Trace TV, children’s channel Wikkid Plus, and E! … [Read more...] about High five for AsiaSat
Quality is key…
The launch of MEASAT-3 (M3) allowed MEASAT to support the growth of core DTH customers in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, towards the end of 2007 we reached agreement with Antrix, the commercial arm of the ISRO, to support the launch of the Reliance DTH platform in India. Reliance have now finalized their testing on the satellite, and are preparing their commercial launch.” Brown-Kenyon says that, with the signing of an agreement with Antrix / Reliance, all the Ku-Band capacity on M3 … [Read more...] about Quality is key…
Asian markets benefit from Open Skies policy
the purpose of the study was to analyse regulation of the satellite services industry in 21 countries across Asia, divided by size and value into primary markets and secondary markets. Although the focus was to examine key aspects of regulatory effectiveness – and not to simply to promote an Open Skies policy – the overwhelming conclusion of the analysis is that markets with an Open Skies policy benefit greatly from the increased business and overall market values afforded by free … [Read more...] about Asian markets benefit from Open Skies policy
Tech perspectives
May Yin Oh Senior Director of Business Development for Greater China and India, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies. Mobile television is now a reality in 12 Asia-Pacific countries and consumer demand in Asia is growing faster than the rest of world. ABI Research estimates there will be 260million mobile TV users in Asia alone by 2012, up from 24million in 2007 and more than half the estimated worldwide take-up of 462million. There are a number of mobile broadcast technologies available today, (one … [Read more...] about Tech perspectives
NL Yellow River Satellite TV targets Chinese auds
Singapore – NL Yellow River Satellite TV, a US$50 million joint venture between China Yellow River Television & Broadcasting Media (CYRTB) and Singapore’s Net Leader Holdings, is targeting a Q3 launch to some 220million people in China and Southeast Asia. A Net Leader spokeperson said the Singapore-based satellite TV firm will offer variety, sports, dramas, animation and other Chinese-language fare. It intends to broadcast to Beijing and Shanghai, as well as some regional cities in … [Read more...] about NL Yellow River Satellite TV targets Chinese auds