BEDMINSTER, NJ – Loral Skynet has resumed offering fixed satellite services (FSS) to broadcast and other customers in North America.
The company, a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications, had been barred from offering FSS in North America for two years, when it sold some of its assets to Intelsat in March 2004.
The ban over, Loral Skynet is back in the game. “We intend to vigorously market our heritage services in this newly available region, in addition to providing our successful IP-focused network services,” says company president Patrick Brant.
Loral Skynet’s global satellite fleet now offers complete bandwidth in every major region in the world and complete global communications services, Brant says. Customers get broadcast and data network services, Internet access, and IP and systems integration.
The company currently operates two satellites covering North America. Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul offers Ku-band capacity across North America and Telstar 12 offers Ku-band capacity to as far West as Denver. Skynet also offers FSS service on transponders it leases across the North American arc, including four transponders it will operate aboard Satmex 6, a high-power C- and Ku-band satellite covering all of the Americas, which is scheduled to begin service this summer.
In addition, Loral Skynet recently announced the start of construction on Telstar 11N, a powerful new multi-region Ku-band communications satellite to be located at 37.5 degrees West longitude. When it enters service in the second quarter of 2008, Telstar 11N will provide service from 39 high-power 54 MHz Ku-band transponders spread across four different geographic beams in the U.S., Europe, Africa and the maritime Atlantic Ocean region. Telstar 11N will complement the coverage of Skynet’s Telstar 12 satellite at 15 degrees West longitude, which provides Ku- band trans-Atlantic coverage to an array of commercial and government users.
