Eutelsat Takes Home SSPI Better Satellite World Award for Its Support of the Crisis Connectivity Charter
04 Décembre 2018 - 10:26AM
Business Wire
Eutelsat has committed satellite resources
and technical expertise towards emergency response efforts around
the globe
Regulatory News:
The Space & Satellite Professionals International yesterday
recognized the signatories to the Crisis Connectivity Charter,
including Eutelsat (Paris:ETL), with the Better Satellite World
Award during a ceremony in London, which annually acknowledges the
contributions of the satellite industry to the global economy,
safety, security, governance, development and health.
The Crisis Connectivity Charter was signed in late 2015 between
the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), the EMEA Satellite Operators
Association (ESOA), the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian
Aid (OCHA) and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) to
help the humanitarian community by enhancing their access to vital
satellite-based communications when local networks are affected,
destroyed or overloaded following disasters. It entered into its
operational phase in May of this year through the signature of
contribution agreements with the United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP), on behalf of the ETC.
In the context of the Charter, Eutelsat has committed
pre-allocated bandwidth on four of its satellites[1] across the
globe, complemented on the ground by ready-to-deploy satellite
kits, enabling emergency telecommunications services to be deployed
in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas within 24 hours
of a crisis.
Simon Gray, Vice President of Humanitarian Affairs of Eutelsat,
commented on the award: “We are honoured to be receiving this award
as a signatory of the Crisis Connectivity Charter. The resilience
and quick deployment of satellite solutions place our industry in a
unique position to support relief efforts and we are proud to be
the first industrial sector to be undertaking such a unified effort
to standardise disaster response on a global scale.”
About Eutelsat CommunicationsFounded in 1977, Eutelsat
Communications is one of the world's leading satellite operators.
With a global fleet of satellites and associated ground
infrastructure, Eutelsat enables clients across Video, Data,
Government, Fixed and Mobile Broadband markets to communicate
effectively to their customers, irrespective of their location.
Over 7,000 television channels operated by leading media groups are
broadcast by Eutelsat to one billion viewers equipped for DTH
reception or connected to terrestrial networks. Headquartered in
Paris, with offices and teleports around the globe, Eutelsat
assembles 1,000 men and women from 46 countries who are dedicated
to delivering the highest quality of service.Eutelsat
Communications is listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange
(ticker: ETL).For more about Eutelsat go to www.eutelsat.com
[1] EUTELSAT 10A, EUTELSAT 21B, EUTELSAT 70B and EUTELSAT 65
West A
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