PremiumFree, a free-to-air satellite television, is set to launch in South Africa on May 1, 2021, with 18 channels. PremiumFree has been available in West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) since late 2018, but is now expanding a 25-channel bouquet of free channels to South Africa after it secured transponder space on Intelsat’s IS20 satellite. “Broadcasting [...]
Vivendi-owned French operator Canal+ will roll out Ethiopia’s first premium DTH platform at the start of 2021. The platform is the outcome of an agreement inked between the operator and satellite operator Eutelsat. The deal is a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for Ku capacity on Eutelsat 7C. The satellite entered into service in January 2020 and [...]
Channel network and content distributor AfricaXP has signed multi-year agreements with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) for Ku-band capacity on two Eutelsat satellites, positioned at 16° East and 7° East. This capacity will enable AfricaXP to extend the reach of its DTH free-to-air TV platform, Premium.Free. Currently broadcast in West Africa, the platform will leverage [...]
On the inaugural day of the AfricaCom 2019 conference, Eutelsat Communications announced the signing of a multi-year contract with Orao Telecom Congo for video capacity on one of its satellites located at 7 ° East, a privileged position for ‘Africa. A first for the African continent, Orao Telecom Congo also joined Eutelsat CIRRUS for distribution [...]
