SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Supernet Limited, Pakistan’s leading satellite service provider, for 52 MHz of C-band transponder capacity on the NSS-12 satellite at the orbital location of 57 degrees East. NSS-12 will support an important GSM backhaul network being deployed by Supernet for one of the leading GSM operators in Pakistan. Supernet will provide GSM backhaul services over satellite for a network consisting of more than 50 sites spread over the mountainous northern areas of Pakistan. The satellite backhaul will enable the GSM operator to extend its mobile services to remote areas of Pakistan that are unreachable through other transmission means. With over 16 years of...
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