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As the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is full steam ahead in its agenda to accelerate its transformation. The archipelago has made huge strides in this space since 2017 with more than 70% increase in mobile broadband penetration across the country.

Cruise ships are like small, vibrant cities at sea – with connectivity demands to match. SES’s O3b mPOWER system is the natural solution to recreate connectivity experience on land in the sea for cruise passengers and crew, with seamless access to broadband-hungry content and applications.

TVRI, an Indonesian public broadcaster, in collaboration with PT Telkom Indonesia and its subsidiary Telkomsat, are announcing a high-definition (HD) channel, TVRI World, delivered to TV homes via SES’s satellites.

Industry leader supports 500 customers and broadcasts 700 hours of premium sports each day

Connectivity services provided via SES's O3b and O3b mPOWER constellation operating in medium earth orbit (MEO) are now available commercially for the first time in Taiwan to Aerkomm Taiwan's government customers, announced both companies

In the framework of a contract with the DGA, integrator and global operator Airbus recently carried out a successful sea trial on board aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, satisfying the French Navy's need for satellite communications at very high speed and low latency to cope with ever-increasing data exchanges.

SES's third and fourth O3b mPOWER satellites have arrived at the Cape Canaveral where they are scheduled for launch in the coming weeks.The pair of satellites will join the first two O3b mPOWER satellites that have arrived at medium earth orbit (or 8,000km above the Earth's surface) and are currently undergoing testing.

Leading global IT infrastructure and services company NTT and SES have announced a multi-year partnership to leverage NTT’s expertise in networking and enterprise managed services and SES’s unique O3b mPOWER satellites system to develop a new offering that will deliver reliable connectivity to enterprises.

Our Chief Services Officer, John Baughn, has retired.We are bringing our Service Operations and Engineering departments together under our Chief Technology Officer, Ruy Pinto, to simplify our workloads and increase our responsiveness to our customers.

Due to its wide coverage and its immunity to rain fade, the C-band has been providing valuable services to communities all over the world for decades.

Thales’ FlytLIVE service powered by the SES-17 satellite is closing the inflight connectivity gap.

One of the agenda items for the next World Radiocommunications Conference is to define the regulatory environment of inter-satellite links in the frequency bands 11.7-12.7 GHz, 18.1-18.6 GHz, 18.8-20.2 GHz and 27.5-30 GHz.