SES Astra Partners with Vodatel for Broadband Internet and Video on-Demand Services in Croatia

BETZDORF, Luxembourg, Jan. 11/Satnews Daily/ — SES Astra, an SES Global company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), and Vodatel d.o.o., a company based in Zagreb, Croatia, have signed an agreement to offer satellite Internet services via Astra 23.5 degrees East and new interactive entertainment services for Croatian households under the brand name eTV.

eTV provides a variety of multimedia services comprising video on-demand (VOD) with a choice of one hundred movies every month. According to SES Astra, users will also have access to more than 100 international and local TV channels. The services will be available via the eTV Media Center box connected to a TV set and a satellite dish pointed at Astra 23.5 degrees East.

In addition, Vodatel will introduce the Sat ADSL service for the Croatian residential market offering broadband access via satellite to the Internet with speeds of up to 1,024 Kbps.

Sebastian Popovic, chairman of Vodatel, said eTV’s media center box will have interactive home entertainment with very attractive services such as VOD, TV and radio, music Jukebox and email. He said the agreement with SES Astra will allow Vodatel to provide reliable and high-quality broadband and multimedia services to the residential market in Croatia.

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