{"id":250089,"date":"2016-09-19T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250089"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:38:12","slug":"multichoice-gears-up-for-future-with-new-eutelsat-satellite-capacity-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250089","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice gears up for future with new Eutelsat satellite capacity lease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) and MultiChoice Africa, one of Africa\u2019s most prominent video entertainment companies, last week announced at IBC in Amsterdam the signature of a nine-year contract for the expansion of the MultiChoice DStv platform at Eutelsat\u2019s 36\u00b0 East video neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The new contract for one transponder reinforces the longstanding relationship between MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat and will further anchor 36\u00b0 East as a premier location for digital video entertainment services in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Jacobs, MultiChoice Africa CEO, said: \u201cThanks to the additional capacity booked with Eutelsat we will be able to accelerate our services and live up to our brand promise of delivering a great customer experience through providing the best possible video entertainment service in Africa marked by quality and choice. We look forward to strengthening our cooperation with our longstanding satellite partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michel Azibert, Chief Commercial and Development Officer at Eutelsat, added: \u201cThis contract further anchors our cluster of high-power satellites at 36\u00b0 East as a point of reference for broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa and our longstanding relationship with MultiChoice Africa, a video company that is a hallmark for quality and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Eutelsat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) and MultiChoice Africa, one of Africa\u2019s most prominent video entertainment companies, last week announced at IBC in Amsterdam the signature of a nine-year contract for the expansion of the MultiChoice DStv platform at Eutelsat\u2019s 36\u00b0 East video neighbourhood. The new contract for one transponder reinforces the longstanding relationship between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":250090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[4354,7733],"class_list":["post-250089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-eutelsat","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}