Russian Satellite Communications Company and Eutelsat to Partner on Broadband Services in Russia Using the new KA-SAT Satellite

Russian Satellite Communications Company and Eutelsat to Partner on Broadband Services in Russia Using the new KA-SAT Satellite

MOSCOW and PARIS, May 16, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and the Russian Satellite
Communications Company (RSCC), Russia's state satellite operator, today
announced they will partner on the commercialisation of broadband and data
network services in Russia using Eutelsat's new KA-SAT High Throughput
Satellite.

Launched in December 2010 and on track to shortly go into full commercial
service, KA-SAT is a breakthrough pan-European infrastructure which will
support the Tooway(TM) broadband service provided by Eutelsat's Skylogic
affiliate. Within the framework of the partnership, RSCC will be the main
partner of Skylogic to commercialise Tooway(TM) services in European regions
of the Russian Federation.

At the SVIAZ Expocomm conference and exhibition in Moscow, which closed
its doors on Friday May 13, Eutelsat and RSCC unveiled the enhanced
performance and speed of the Tooway(TM) broadband service with the first live
demonstration via KA-SAT.

Yuri Prokhorov, RSCC Director General stated: "We are delighted to
further enhance our strategic partnership with Eutelsat and are confident
that our co-operation will allow us to take satellite broadband services for
Russian state and private customers to new levels of quality, and will
initiate the market for advanced development of Ka-band networks on the
satellites now on order by RSCC."

Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat CEO, responded: "By combining the performance
of KA-SAT with the market expertise and reputation of RSCC, we are creating a
powerful platform for the development of broadband access services for users
in Russia. We look forward to collaborating with RSCC on solutions that
enable Russian users to access the full benefits of broadband."

About the Russian Satellite Communications Company

Russian Satellite Communications Company is the Russian national
satellite communications operator, whose satellites provide global coverage.
The company was formed in 1967 and is one of the ten largest satellite
operators worldwide in terms of the size of its orbiting frequency resources.
RSCC owns Russia's largest satellite constellation. Areas served by RSCC
satellites, which are in orbit at points from 14degrees W to 140degrees E,
cover all of Russia, the CIS countries, Europe, the Near East, Africa, the
Asia-Pacific Region, North and South America, and Australia.

As Russia's national satellite communications operator, RSCC handles
important national tasks, supporting mobile presidential and government
communications, transmitting federal TV and radio signals throughout Russia
and most of the world. The company actively participates in implementing
priority national projects. RSCC closely interacts with the Russian state
authorities in the development of information and telecommunications systems
for communications and broadcasting. RSCC provides a full range of
communications and broadcasting services using its own terrestrial equipment
and satellite constellation, including modern Express-AM, Express-MD,
Express-A, and Bonum-1 satellites and some French W4 satellite capacity. The
company's satellites provide extensive capabilities to establish TV and radio
broadcasting including DTH, IPTV, and MPEG-4 services, broadband Internet
access, data transmission, videoconferencing, and deployment of VSAT networks
and departmental and corporative communications networks worldwide. The
company has a modern terrestrial satellite control system, which it uses to
control not only its own satellites, but those of Eutelsat, Intelsat, and
others as well.

The company includes five satellite communications centers (SCC): Dubna,
Bear Lakes, Skolkovo, Zheleznogorsk, Khabarovsk and the Shabolovka Technical
Center in Moscow and its own high-speed optical-fiber digital network.
http://www.rscc.ru

About Eutelsat Communications

Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is
the holding company of Eutelsat S.A.. With capacity commercialised on 27
satellites that provide coverage over the entire European continent, as well
as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the
Americas, Eutelsat is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in
terms of revenues. At 31 December 2010, Eutelsat's satellites were
broadcasting more than 3,700 television channels to over 200 million cable
and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Group's
satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobile telecommunications
services, TV contribution markets, corporate networks, and broadband markets
for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritime and in-flight
markets. Eutelsat's broadband subsidiary, Skylogic, markets and operates
access to high speed Internet services through teleports in France and Italy
that serve enterprises, local communities, government agencies and aid
organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in
Paris, Eutelsat and its subsidiaries employ 683 commercial, technical and
operational employees from 28 countries.

http://www.eutelsat.com

Source: Eutelsat Communications and Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC)

For further information: Eutelsat Communications, Press, Vanessa O'Connor, Tel. : + 33-1-53-98-37-91, voconnor@eutelsat.fr; Frederique Gautier, Tel. : + 33-1-53-98-37-91, fgautier@eutelsat.fr; Analysts and Investors, Lisa Finas, Tel. : +33-1-53-98-35-30, investors@eutelsat-communications.com; Russian Satellite Communications Company, e-mail: pr@rscc.ru

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