Case studies

Tambarin TV, giving a voice to the Hause Community in Nigeria
 

Tambarin Hausa Television promotes the Hausa culture and language worldwide, as well as bridges the communication gap for their Hausa-speaking audience across the region and further afield. Using the high capacity and extensive coverage of EUTELSAT 7B, they deliver digital TV services across Africa to reach these Hausa-speaking communities. In this video they explain why they chose a digital platform.

81% of satellite TV homes in Tanzania are entertained by AZAM TV. Powered by Eutelsat, AZAM TV has grown to reach 1.4 million homes and is the broadcaster of choice for Tanzania. However, AZAM TV faced many challenges. Find out how AZAM, a new operator in a highly competitive market, became the major player in Tanzanian broadcasting.

Despite the interest, passion and dedication of its viewership, eSports has yet to truly enter as a mainstream sport. Efforts from ESR and Eutelsat are set to challenge this status-quo and position eSports as a social viewing activity for generations to come - and satellite has presented an opportunity to do so.

Swiss TV audiences demand a wide variety of channels in their different languages. However, this has proved challenging for cable access in a country where more than 50% of the territory is covered in mountains and woodlands. Satellite is the only option for the households in these regions. Kabelio's new DTH platform offers Swiss viewers access to the content they want, no matter where they may be.

France 24 is an international news channel giving a French perspective on international news to audiences globally. They chose satellite as a major pillar of their distribution strategy and today have a massive audience of 355 million households worldwide.

When Italian state broadcaster Rai planned the launch of the country’s first Ultra HD channel in 2016, it had to decide how to deliver the service to homes across the country. After careful analysis, Rai was convinced by satellite’s cost-effective coverage and ability to deliver a consistently high-quality 4K signal across its entire coverage area.

Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland’s largest media and telecommunications platform, and the Polish Chamber of Digital Broadcasting (PIRC), discuss how Building Regulations in Poland have helped to create more choice of TV packages and channels for people living in residential buildings.

When Tricolor TV set up in 2005, it had a huge business challenge: how to reach households across the vast territory of Western Russia with an innovative and inexpensive TV offering in a country where many households were still receiving analogue TV and DTT was slow to take off.

Walesi, the Fijian government’s digital television infrastructure company, have connected 333 widely spread islands using the new EUTELSAT 172B high-capacity satellite, ensuring all its citizens have access to digital TV.

Neptune Communications' suite of new services, provided across highly resilient satellite and mobile infrastructures and entirely independent from existing terrestrial networks, are designed to support the region's most important connectivity requirements.

The Statsraad Lehmkuhl needs to be constantly connected - while at sea or docking into one of the 36 different ports around the world. It’s a challenge that most connectivity solutions could not overcome.

Eutelsat and long-term partner Telespazio provide quality connectivity to the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest. Through Eutelsat’s 117 WEST B satellite and Telespazio’s infrastructure coverage of these previously unreachable areas became possible.

In their mission to make Guyana a more connected country, iNet Communications worked with Eutelsat to bring broadband to eco-lodges using satellite networking.

With intelligent use of satellite connectivity, portable technology and networking, iNet brings fully scalable internet, voice and data connectivity to Guyana's mining community.

Mobile operator Mattel uses satellite connectivity to enable widespread access to mobile and internet services in towns and villages across Mauritania.

Satellite internet provider, Caribsat, explains how they are using IP Easy to provide direct internet connectivity to businesses and schools across the Caribbean.

Failsafe Controls design industrial control panels for the oil and gas industry to deliver information from remote sites to a client’s central offices. With the remote sites often beyond cellular coverage, they needed a reliable solution to backhaul data to the office environment without worrying about coverage issues and at the same time lowering costs.

The Consorzio di Bonifica delle Marche is the public entity responsible for the operations and safety of waterways in the Marche region of Italy. By using Eutelsat’s advanced satellite solutions, the Consorzio di Bonifica delle Marche gained 99% network availability to connect, optimise and operate their remote operations in a region notorious for poor connectivity.

Panasonic Avionics explain how advances in satellite technology are enabling airlines to offer new IFEC services to passengers.

When Unicom Air Net wanted to deploy an inflight communications network to provide broadband internet services to mobile platforms, they chose EUTELSAT 172B.

Télécoms Sans Frontières, the world’s leading international NGO specialising in technology and telecommunications for humanitarian crises, equips communities and response units with high-speed connectivity in just a few hours.