{"id":85704,"date":"2010-12-07T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-cco-sees-strong-dth-prospects-in-indian-ocean-region\/"},"modified":"2010-12-07T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:06:09","slug":"eutelsat-cco-sees-strong-dth-prospects-in-indian-ocean-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-cco-sees-strong-dth-prospects-in-indian-ocean-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat CCO Sees Strong DTH Prospects in Indian Ocean Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-07-10] <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> signed a contract with French broadcaster <strong>France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions<\/strong> to deliver more digital channels to the Reunion and Mayotte islands in the Indian Ocean region. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To support the deal, Eutelsat has opened a second satellite signal from its W2A satellite to enable commercial operators in the region to integrate DTT digital public channels into their platforms. The launch of DTT Dec. 1 enables the population of Indian Ocean islands to access an offer of 10 free-to-air digital channels compared to the previous offer of a single over-the-air analog channel, Tempo. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the two Eutelsat satellite signals, France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions can feed terrestrial transmitters and ensure DTH reception in grey areas for homes beyond range of terrestrial reception. This configuration ensures the availability of France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions\u2019 public channels to commercial platforms, Eutelsat CCO Andrew Wallace told Satellite News. \u201cFor the future, as is already the case with metropolitan France, we can see that the move to a fully digital environment is generating new opportunities for local and regional channels to expand their reach and is also supporting roll-out of channels in HD,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract, also helps Eutelsat meet its universal service access obligations, Wallace said. \u201cThe two services launched on Eutelsat form part of the continuity program for French territories, which includes ensuring universal access to national DTT channels for all French homes overseas in advance of analog switch-off, which is scheduled for the end 2011.\u201d <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wallace hopes W2A can continue to play a key role in the region. \u201cAccording to the most recent figures of the survey released for the region by Ipsos, 66 percent of TV homes subscribe to a pay-TV platform \u2014 up six points in 12 months,\u201d he said. \u201cAlthough terrestrial triple-play services are available in areas served by DSL networks, the vast majority of pay-TV homes are equipped for satellite reception. Three pay-TV platforms \u2014 Parabole R\u00e9union, Canalsat R\u00e9union and Orange TV \u2014 are available in French Indian Ocean islands and all of them broadcast from Eutelsat\u2019s 16 degrees East position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-07-10] Eutelsat signed a contract with French broadcaster France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions to deliver more digital channels to the Reunion and Mayotte islands in the Indian Ocean region. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To support the deal, Eutelsat has opened a second satellite signal from its W2A satellite to enable commercial operators in the region to integrate DTT digital public channels [&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-85704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704"}],"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=85704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}