Netherlands: SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A.  today announced that it had entered into a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement that covers all 12 Ku-band transponders on the India beam of the SES-7 satellite. The capacity on SES-7 will be used to support the growth and expansion of India’s thriving DTH market.

Deepak Mathur, SES WORLD SKIES Vice President of Sales for South Asia and the Middle East, said: “SES provides significant satellite capacity for the explosive growth in the Indian media, DTH and telecommunications industries. SES currently supplies capacity to the Indian market via four of its satellites NSS-12, NSS-6, NSS-11 and SES-7, and we are committed to meet the growing demand requirements of the Indian DTH market, which is the fastest growing DTH market in the world with an estimated 30 million subscribers and is projected to overtake the US as the largest DTH market”.