Croatian Vodatel and SES ASTRA Introduce Broadband Internet and Video on-Demand Services.BETZDORF, Luxembourg Betzdorf (Luxembourgish: Betzder) is a commune and village in eastern Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Grevenmacher, which is part of the district of Grevenmacher. The commune's administrative centre is Berg. -- SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (French: Bourse de Luxembourg) is a stock exchange based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. : SESG SESG Systems Engineering Steering Group SESG Software Engineering Support Group SESG System Engineering Sub-Group ) and Vodatel d.o.o., a company based in Zagreb, Croatia, are pleased to announce the conclusion of an agreement for satellite Internet services via ASTRA ASTRA Ancient Instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application ASTRA Australian Strategic Air Traffic Management Group ASTRA Arab Supply and Trading Corporation ASTRA Automatic System for Transport Analysis ASTRA Automatic Satellite Tracking Research Antenna 23.5 degrees East and new interactive entertainment services for Croatian households under the brand name eTV. eTV provides a variety of multimedia services comprising Video On-Demand with a choice of one hundred movies every month. Users will also have access to more than 100 international and local TV channels. The services are available via the eTV Media Center box connected to a TV set and a satellite dish pointed at ASTRA 23.5 degrees East. In addition, Vodatel will introduce the Sat ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line service for the Croatian residential market offering broadband access via satellite to the Internet with speeds of up to 1,024 Kbps. Mr. Sebastian Popovic, chairman of Vodatel, said: "Our eTV media center box enables interactive home entertainment with very attractive services such as Video-On Demand, TV & Radio, music Jukebox, email and many others. Thanks to our agreement with the leading satellite operator in Europe, SES ASTRA, we are able to provide reliable and high-quality broadband and multimedia services to the residential market in Croatia." Commenting on the agreement, Philippe Glaesener, VP and General Manager Sales Broadband and IP of SES ASTRA, stated: "We are pleased that through this agreement with Vodatel, Croatian households can now enjoy new broadband and interactive multimedia services via the ASTRA Satellite System. This agreement further underlines SES ASTRA's commitment to the region." About Vodatel www.vodatel.hr Vodatel is the one of the leading Croatian companies offering telecommunication services based on Internet technology. Their goal is to provide users with simple and accessible data and voice communications with an emphasis on Internet technology and wireless connections. In addition to the provision of classic Internet services, Vodatel offers to companies customized telecommunication services as well as high quality national and international private networks using the Internet infrastructure. Vodatel was founded in Zagreb and is based on years of experience of its founders, which have been active from the very beginning of the commercial development of the Internet market in Croatia and Slovenia in the field of Internet technology. About SES ASTRA www.ses-astra.com The ASTRA Satellite System is the leading Direct-to-Home (DTH (Direct-To-Home) Typically refers to satellite TV broadcasting directly to a dish antenna on the roof of a house. See DBS. ) satellite system in Europe, delivering services to more than 94 million Direct-to-Home and cable households. The ASTRA satellite fleet currently comprises 12 satellites, transmitting in excess of 1400 analogue and digital television and radio channels as well as multimedia and Internet services. ASTRA's two prime orbital positions for DTH services are 19.2 degrees East and 28.2 degrees East. Professional services such as Direct-to-cable (DTC DTC See: Depository Transfer Check DTC See: Depository Trust Company DTC See Depository Trust Company (DTC). ), Satellite Newsgathering news·gath·er·ing adj. Of, relating to, or involving the research and reportage of news: a worldwide newsgathering operation. news (SNG SNG abbr. 1. substitute natural gas 2. synthetic natural gas ) and Occasional Use are offered from the orbital position of 23.5 degrees East. SES ASTRA is an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG). SES GLOBAL wholly owns two market-leading satellite operators, SES ASTRA in Europe, and SES AMERICOM in the US. The Company also holds strategic participations in AsiaSat in Asia, Star One and Nahuelsat in Latin America, and NSAB NSAB National Security Advisory Board (India) NSAB Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Arztebund (German: National Socialist German Doctors' Association) NSAB Nova Scotia Animal Breeders in Europe. Via its WORLDSAT subsidiary it provides unparalleled connections to the premier regional satellite fleets of these SES GLOBAL partners. Americom Government Services provides network solutions and bandwidth to the US government and its contractors. SES GLOBAL can provide outstanding satellite communications solutions via a fleet of 40 satellites across the globe. In addition, SES GLOBAL is a shareholder in ORBCOMM, a provider of wireless data communications services through a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite network, and in satellite technology company ND Satcom. SES GLOBAL is also a founding shareholder in SATLYNX, a Luxembourg-based joint venture with Gilat and Alcatel Space, which has created an unrivalled portfolio of reliable and cost-efficient two-way satellite broadband service solutions to enterprises/corporates, small office/home office See SOHO. (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) users and local communities all over Europe. Additional info on SES GLOBAL at: www.ses-global.com |
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