{"id":80341,"date":"2013-08-20T01:23:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eshailsat-and-arabsat-sign-strategic-partnership-for-expanded-dth-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:23:47","slug":"eshailsat-and-arabsat-sign-strategic-partnership-for-expanded-dth-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eshailsat-and-arabsat-sign-strategic-partnership-for-expanded-dth-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Es\u2019hailSat and Arabsat Sign Strategic Partnership for Expanded DTH Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-19-13] Qatar-based <strong>Es\u2019hailSat<\/strong> and <strong>Arabsat<\/strong> have signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote closer cooperation and strengthen the reach and penetration of the 26 degrees east hot spot neighborhood for TV broadcasting. Under the agreement, Es\u2019hailSat will acquire the rights to 500MHz of premium Ku-band bandwidth at this orbital position. The company\u2019s second satellite, Es\u2019hail 2, will use these frequencies and to provide DTH and other telecommunications services from this hot spot.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will significantly increase Es\u2019hailSat\u2019s capacity at the 25.5 \/ 26.0 east TV broadcasting hot spot, and will strengthen the company\u2019s in-orbit back-up capability when both Es\u2019hail 1 and Es\u2019hail 2 are operational. Furthermore, the agreement will pave the way for enhanced operational flexibility and mutual in-orbit back-up between the Es\u2019hailSat and Arabsat satellite fleets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our first satellite \u2013 Es\u2019hail 1 \u2013 scheduled for launch on 29th August 2013 and our plans for Es\u2019hail 2 now confirmed, we are moving closer to providing the necessary capacity to enable our customers to substantially increase their communications capability, particularly in broadcasting in HD and 3D,\u201d said Es\u2019hailSat CEO, Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership will provide our customers and viewers with more alternatives and variety of contents that will be beneficial for both operators and will make 26 degrees east the premium hot spot of the region,\u201d Khalid Balkheyour, Arabsat\u2019s president and CEO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-19-13] Qatar-based Es\u2019hailSat and Arabsat have signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote closer cooperation and strengthen the reach and penetration of the 26 degrees east hot spot neighborhood for TV broadcasting. Under the agreement, Es\u2019hailSat will acquire the rights to 500MHz of premium Ku-band bandwidth at this orbital position. The company\u2019s second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}