Arab Satellite Communication Organization (Arabsat) and Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has signed a strategic commercial agreement to utilize the new Badr-7 satellite currently under manufacturing expected to be launched by the end 2015. According to this agreement, EMC has designed and acquired on an exclusive bases a hosted payload to be carried onboard Arabsat Badr-7 Satellite to operate the first ever multi-purpose Ka band hosted payload covering 34 countries in the EMEA and Central Asia regions, Arabsat Badr-7 satellite and EMC hosted payload uses the most reliable satellite platform in the market the EuroStar-3000 , this satellite and its payload to be located on the Arabsat premium orbital location (Hot Spot) at 26 East where is already more than 30 Million free to air households, 400 Standard Definition TV Channels and 50 High Definition TV channels covering most major populations in Africa, Central Asia,

 Middle East and Europe. Designed from the ground up, this new EMC hosted payload for the entire Ka band spectrum is based on multiple EMC patents and provides high throughput data rates supporting multiple applications for the consumer and carrier markets ranging from two way broadband services directly to the home, wireless distribution for 3G and LTE operators directly to the tower and in-country video distribution for regional TV content making this payload ideal for the emerging consumer triple play over satellite market. 

EMC CEO Abel Avellan commented; Previous generation of Ka band High Throughput Satellites (HTS) where designed to support only mass-consumer basic Internet services with little or not flexibility to support other key connectivity needs. Our patented payload configurations not only delivers a large amount of Gbps on a key and vital TV neighborhood in the EMEA region, with several times the throughput of what traditional satellites can offer today, it also provides total flexibility to serve multiple high growth markets and verticals which was not possible to address until now. Wireless is the future and new extremely low cost terminals, abundant new Ka  Band spectrum, the ability of satellites to broadcast video more effectively than any other technology and EMC patents are very powerful combination to serve the communications and entrainment needs of potentially billions in the emerging markets, we are very excited about this transaction and plan to replicate the same model in other regions of the world. 

Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkhyour commented; Arabsat Badr-7 satellite with its new payload will generate new era of convergence between satellite communication and TV broadcasting at one Orbital position. WE, Arabsat, as the leading satellite operator in the MENA region welcome and go forward with all our partners and customers to provide new types of services and enhance the development of satellite communication over the region utilizing the most sophisticated technologies and applications. We are honored to team with EMC in this project to come up with unique satellite configuration that serves the interest of both parties and the all population of the area. Our common commercial partnership with EMC, by signing this agreement will bring the satellite communication, Data distribution and TV broadcasting new dimension serving as well Arabsat targets and ambitions for keeping its leadership and growth.