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Since 1996, MEASAT has provided reliable satellite solutions to customers across the Asia-Pacific region. With rights to 16 orbital slots around the world, MEASAT today owns and operates three satellites, MEASAT-1 (91.5ºE), MEASAT-2 (148ºE) and MEASAT-3 (91.5ºE). The satellite fleet provides services to over 110 countries, representing more than 70% of the world’s population, across Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa through a single C-Band beam. With satellites designed to cut through the high tropical rainfall, these satellites also provide DTH quality Ku-band coverage into Malaysia, IndoChina, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.
MEASAT is also used by many of the region's leading terrestrial broadcasters to distribute television programming to cable head-ends, and by telecommunications operators to support remote connectivity, GSM and corporate VSAT networks. To meet growing customer needs, and provide critical in-orbit redundancy at the 91.5ºE orbital location, in 2003 MEASAT contracted Boeing to build and deliver its third satellite, MEASAT-3. Launched in December 2006, MEASAT-3 provides 24 C-band transponders providing coverage across a region bounded by Africa and Eastern Europe in the West, through to Japan and Australia in the East. |