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Solaris Mobile takes shape
Solaris Mobile takes shape
Chris Forrester,
Eutelsat and SES Astra on June 18 formally opened their Dublin, Ireland, office for their Solaris Mobile joint-venture S-Band entertainment concept. By this time next year Solaris should be operating a TV and radio transmission system for mobile devices.
Steve Maine is CEO at Solaris, and said that with a scheduled launch of Eutelsat’s W2A craft in February, plus the usual in-orbit testing, he hoped to see service introduction during Q2 next year. Solaris Mobile is a wholesale service provider, and Maine said they are now talking to telcos and media players.
“We need to talk to anybody that has and offers a route to market. I could give you an example, but it would be wrong to infer anything at all from this example. But look at BSkyB. Sky is not a Mobile Network Operator but has a wonderfully strong retail presence with a large number of customers. So if you think about companies which have significant relationships with large numbers of consumers, it might be telecoms operators but it could be others in the media space. And these are the kind of companies that we think we need to be talking to and working with. But I stress don’t jump to any conclusions with Sky, I could have picked on Canal+ or anyone of a number of large media players across Europe,” said Maine.
Maine also added that while Solaris Mobile would be supplying six spot beams on Europe’s largest linguistic communities (English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish) he hoped that pan-European services would be available. While stressing that such discussions were embryonic at this stage, he could certainly envision carrying channels from the likes of CNN and Eurosport on a pan-regional basis, “especially where international rights issues have long been sorted out.”
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19-06-2008, 03:12 PM
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