Media Networks signs satellite capacity deal with SES

Media Networks Latin America (MNLA) has signed a long-term capacity deal to expand its pay-TV service across Central America and the Caribbean. Under the terms of the agreement, MNLA, a unit of Telefonica Digital, has secured multiple transponders on SES' AMC-4 satellite in order to launch a new DTH wholesale pay-TV service reaching new audiences with a combined lineup of international and regional SD and HD channels. The SES spacecraft AMC-4, located at 67 degrees West, is expected to allows MNLA to meet the DTH demand in Central America and the Caribbean as well as other future growth markets with its existing ground infrastructure, including its teleport in Lima, Peru. AMC-4 was deployed at 67 degrees West in 2010 and provides expansion capacity in Latin America for various applications, such as rural telecommunications, VSAT networks, e-learning, pay-TV and mobile broadband.