Eutelsat's Tooway™ Satellite Broadband Service Attracts New Business in the Ukraine With Eurosat-Ukraine

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Jul 13, 2011, 06:27 ET

PARIS and KIEV, Ukraine, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the signature of a distribution contract for the Tooway™ broadband service between its Skylogic subsidiary and Eurosat-Ukraine. Eurosat-Ukraine is an affiliate of Altegrosky, a leading provider of satellite-delivered telecoms services in Russia and CIS countries. The new contract between Skylogic and Eurosat-Ukraine covers distribution to consumers in the Ukraine of the Tooway™ new generation satellite broadband service, which is delivered via Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite.

With Tooway™ packages enabling users to benefit from download speeds of up to 10 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 4 Mbps, Eurosat-Ukraine can now offer fast and immediate Internet access to users across the Ukraine. Leveraging Altegrosky's extensive experience of providing traditional VSAT solutions in Russia, with 6 500 terminals already deployed, the company plans to focus on rural areas and areas with poor ADSL and mobile broadband coverage. Over 10 million households in the Ukraine's rural and suburban areas are not served by any Internet access, representing a significant addressable market.

Celebrating the partnership with Eutelsat, Sergey Pekhterev General Manager of Altegrosky, said: "Our newpartnership with Skylogicand Eutelsatis a powerful new platform for expanding our range of services and increasingthe efficiency of the solutions we offer.Our objective with our joint effort is totackle the problem of white spots by offering the speed and performance of Tooway™ to households across the Ukraine."

Arduino Patacchini, CEO of Skylogic responded: "The selection of Tooway™ by Altegrosky, an expert in satellite-based telecom networks, highlights the confidence of our partners in the new KA-SAT broadband infrastructure. We look forward to developing Tooway™ service growth in Eastern Europe with Altegrosky and Eurosat-Ukraine, and believe that the performance and affordability of our new-generation satellite broadband services will contribute to rapidly reducing digital exclusion for individuals deprived of high-speed Internet access."

The new generation Tooway™ service is provided by Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite which went into full commercial service in May. With its total throughput of more than 70 Gbps, KA-SAT is a wireless broadband infrastructure designed to deliver fast, effective and affordable IP applications to users across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

For more information visit: http://www.tooway.com, http://www.altegrosky.ru

About AltegroSky/Eurosat-Ukraine

AltegroSky is the one of the biggest Russian satellite operators VSAT (more than 15% of the Russian VSAT market). The company commercializes capacity on Yamal-200, Express-AM22 and Express-AM3 satellites, providing full coverage of Russia and the CIS territory. AltegroSky delivers high-speed Internet access and corporate networks for data transmission as well as telemetry, telephony, video conferencing, multicasting and business TV services to the business customers and consumers. The AltegroSky network operates over 6,500 VSAT terminals and has more than 500 certified regionals partners in Russia.

Eurosat-Ukraine was founded in 2010 as affiliate of Altegrosky specially to be Service Provider of Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite services in Ukraine. Eurosat-Ukraine is going to focus its activity on the consumer market.

http://www.altegrosky.ru; http://www.eurosat.net.ua

About Eutelsat Communications

Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A. With capacity commercialised on 27 satellites that provide coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, Eutelsat is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues. At 31 December 2010, Eutelsat's satellites were broadcasting more than 3,700 television channels to over 200 million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Group's satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobile telecommunications services, TV contribution markets, corporate networks, and broadband markets for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritime and in-flight markets. Eutelsat's broadband subsidiary, Skylogic, markets and operates access to high speed Internet services through teleports in France and Italy that serve enterprises, local communities, government agencies and aid organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and its subsidiaries employ 683 commercial, technical and operational employees from 28 countries.