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2016 and is being built by
Technology, timed
Mitsubishi Electric Corp, and
for the Dubai
MENA, by the numbers
will be launched by SpaceX.
CabSat show,
Operator
Comment
Satellite
IPTV
The Qatari’s are also talking
showed that – at
BeIN Sports
“largest by subs numbers”
1.817m
800,000
about a third satellite. In
long last – pay-TV
OSN
“largest number of packages” 770,000
120,000
December 2014, they
in the Middle East
Al Majd
“Saudi, low-cost religious”
466,000
n/a
confirmed that all of the
region is making
Abu Dhabi Media “lost EPL soccer rights”
150,000
n/a
(Qatari) Al-Jazeera news and
solid and even
documentary channels would
impressive
Source: IHS Technology, March 2014
shift from their Arabsat
progress albeit
Note: MyHD, newly launched in 2013, is not included in this study, but claims
frequencies onto Es’Hail-1.
from a very low
more than 400,000 subs
This news was not
base. IHS’s senior
unexpected given that all the
analyst
viewers needed to do was to re-tune their
Qatari craft is having.
Constantinos Papavassilopoulos says that
set-top boxes, but it shows the impact t B