{"id":85576,"date":"2011-01-07T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-wins-albania-capacity-deal\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:24:02","slug":"eutelsat-wins-albania-capacity-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-wins-albania-capacity-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Wins Albania Capacity Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-07-11] <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> has secured another capacity deal with an up and coming operator in Central and Eastern Europe, the operator, announced Jan. 6.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eutelsat signed a deal with Albanian pay-TV operator <strong>DigitAlb<\/strong>, which has has extended for an extra three years its contract with Eutelsat for five transponders on satellites operating at the operator\u2019s 16 degrees East video neighborhood.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DigitAlb launched pay-TV services in Albania in 2004, and the platform has more than 300,000 DTH subscribers in Albania and across Europe and reaches a further 100,000 homes via Albania\u2019s digital terrestrial television network, which retransmits channels delivered to towers by DigitAlb\u2019s Eutelsat capacity.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DigitAlb also plans a move toward MPEG-4 in the near future. \u201cVery soon, DigitAlb will be broadcasting more MPEG-4 channels than in MPEG-2, increasing the efficiency of bandwidth utilization. We are confident that the successful cooperation between our companies will contribute to a continued bright future for digital broadcasting in the region,\u201d says Alban Jaho, CEO, DigitAlb.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Albania, one of Europe\u2019s smaller countries, has seen more satellite players trying to bring services to the market. Newtec has been present in Ablania over the last couple of years, working with Greek satellite operator Hellas Sat and local service provider Star Sat to bring satellite-based Internet connectivity to schools in remote parts of Albania. Hellas Sat has connected 300 schools in remote, rural areas of Albania with interactive broadband Internet access using Newtec technology.<\/p>\n<h2>\nRelated Stories-<\/h2>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Year in Review: 3-D TV Takes Center Stage<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/ico_goldkey.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 3, 2011<br \/>\n[01-03-10] 2010 was the year  when 3-D TV went from being a far out technology to being part of the  mainstream with a slew of announcements throughout the year in this  exciting new medium. Here, we take a look at how the drama\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ILS Orbits Ka-Sat for Eutelsat<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 28, 2010<br \/>\n[12-28-10] International  Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the Ka-Sat satellite to  orbit for Eutelsat on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur  Cosmodrome, ILS announced Dec 27. Ka-Sat was released into\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Report Clears Proton from Glonass Failure; Ka-Sat Launch Postponed<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 13, 2010<br \/>\n[12-13-10] The Baikonur  Cosmodrome control center has placed a temporary ban on Proton rocket  missions and has postponed International Launch Services  (ILS) Dec. 20  launch of Eutelsat s Ka-Sat telecommunications satellite\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-07-11] Eutelsat has secured another capacity deal with an up and coming operator in Central and Eastern Europe, the operator, announced Jan. 6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eutelsat signed a deal with Albanian pay-TV operator DigitAlb, which has has extended for an extra three years its contract with Eutelsat for five transponders on satellites operating at the operator\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-85576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85576"}],"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=85576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}