NSS-10 (top) and NSS-12 (bottom)
SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchanges: SESG) has announced Constellation Networks Corporation (CNC) has signed capacity deals on two satellites to deliver life-changing Internet access to remote communities around the world. Constellation Networks has signed a multiple year contract on SES' NSS-10 and NSS-12 satellites to meet the basic communications needs of isolated towns and villages across the globe, including Africa, the Middle East, Australia, India, China and Europe. More than half of CNC's satellite-delivered broadband is enabling everything from AIDS and malaria research to small business growth in virtually every African nation. The Traverse City, Michigan-based firm has come a long way since first connecting a cyber café in Lagos, Nigeria.
CNC's Internet connections have led to emotional ties to many of its newly empowered customers, including American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq who subscribe to internet services and receive an occasional care package of homemade cookies from the satellite broadband provider.