Eutelsat has released its Consolidated Financial Statement saying that, as at June 30th (the end of its financial year), some 6.7 per cent of its revenues were “exposed” to Russian customers. “The Group had no significant exposure to Ukraine in terms of revenues. The Group also leases capacity on four satellites owned by the Russian […]

Portuguese legal practice Gómez-Acebo & Pombo says it has advised Eutelsat on the sale of “more than 1,000” customers using Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite. The agreement to sell the client base was reached in June. The buyer is Eurona which says the purchase expands its existing connections services in Spain, and it now enters the Portuguese […]

Rodolphe Belmer, formerly CEO at Canal+ and Eutelsat, is to join French commercial PSB TF1 as Director General. The move follows the failure of the attempted merger between TF1 and fellow PSB M6. Gilles Pélisson, currently Chairman and Director General, will propose Belmer’s appointment at the company’s Board meeting on October 27th. On this date, […]

The Eutelsat/OneWeb merger combination will need to be modified and adapted if the resulting business wants to be considered for the proposed European satellite broadband system, reports The FT. Officials in Brussels are said to be “deeply hostile” to OneWeb because the UK government has a so-called ‘golden share’ in OneWeb, and would mean that […]

Satellite constellation operator OneWeb is reportedly seeking to raise “billion of pounds” in fresh funding. This cash-raising exercise is additional to the recently announced merger between OneWeb and Paris-based Eutelsat. The fresh cash is needed to fund the cost for building and launching OneWeb’s second-generation satellites, which will be more powerful. Reports suggest that OneWeb […]

Intelsat’s new CEO David Wajsgras spoke to delegates at the Euroconsult Paris World Satellite Business Week and said that Intelsat was looking at transformation on multiple levels. Intelsat is now fully emerged from bankruptcy although also surrounded by rumours that there could be a merger with arch-rival SES. Wajsgras joined Intelsat in April. He told […]

Eutelsat and Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, have signed a multi-year, multi-beam agreement for capacity on the Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite to address the connectivity needs of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) customers in Uganda, South Sudan and the Eastern regions of […]

Airbus is shipping the first of a pair of Eutelsat ‘super-satellites’ to the Cape ready for launch preparations. Airbus is building two ‘super satellites’ for Eutelsat. Eutelsat Hotbird 13F is about to ship, while its sister craft, Eutelsat 13G is finishing up with Airbus and will be launched later this year. Eutelsat-13F and 13G will, […]

After a day’s delay because of poor weather, Arianespace successfully launched Eutelsat’s huge Konnect VHTS into its geostationary transfer orbit at 18.45 pm French Guiana time on September 7th. The Very High Throughput telecoms satellite (VHTS) will provide high-speed internet access throughout Europe, in particular in isolated regions with low coverage. For Arianespace it was […]