Nearly USD20 million were invested in Brazil to construct the Control Center, the multimedia platform and the terminals.

Located in the 61º W orbit position above Amazonas, it is the largest and most effective satellite in Brazil, with C- and Ku-band transmission capacity for all the Americas and part of Europe.

At present, over two thirds of the Brazilian satellite market are dominated by only one company, and the remaining third, by foreign satellite companies. The start-up of Amazonas satellite’s operations will represent an effective increase in competition in this segment benefiting large and small users, including the government.


COVERAGE

Amazonas satellite has been designed with coverage and power capacity fully customized to the specific needs of the American market. Its technical features enable to serve with full power potential not only Brazil, but also all the Americas. It also covers part of Europe and North Africa.

Such flexibility enables Amazonas satellite to offer a wide range of communications services such as TV and radio broadcasting, corporate telecommunications networks, and multimedia and broadband Internet applications.


SERVICES


Audiovisual

Amazonas satellite will offer the best vehicle for content transmission everywhere in the Americas for free-to-air and subscription TV companies and content developers and distributors. The satellite will provide uplink and downlink solutions in Brazil, the Americas and Western Europe, enabling live transmission of events, sport coverage and interviews, including editing and play-out features.

Telephony

Fixed and mobile communications carriers, network integrators and multimedia service companies will benefit from a technological structure providing flexible solutions to expand satellite communication networks anywhere in the Americas.


Corporate networks

Clients with needs related to remote telephony, e-learning, corporate networks and remote monitoring, VSAT networks, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links and Internet access will also benefit from Amazonas’ capacity.

Nera Telecomunicações supplies the multimedia platform, the management system and the remote terminals. Alcatel Space supplies the teleport (ground station).

The system enables suppliers to expand their services to areas with inadequate conventional ground infrastructure, including: ISPs (Internet Service Providers), ASPs (Application Service Providers), Mobile Telecommunication Systems, ADSL networks, PMP (Point-to-Multipoint) radio base stations.

The platform supports several applications, including: banking and financial services, co-location for web and web hosting servers for Internet access, voice over IP, VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), e-learning, telemedicine, interactive TV distribution, videoconference, rural telephony, content transmission: DTH, broadband services and Internet high-speed access.

Hispasat is a leading satellite telecommunication company in the Iberian Peninsula, and, since 1989, it manages the 30º West orbit position on the Atlantic Ocean, enabling telecommunication carriers and radio broadcasters to operate both in Europe and in the Americas. At present, the company has three satellites in operation.

Telemar, the largest private company in Brazil, is the only telecom carrier with 100% Brazilian equity. It focuses on offering integrated solutions and provides local and long-distance fixed voice, data transmission, customer, Internet and mobile communication services. Telemar is licensed to provide local and long-distance fixed telephony services and personal mobile services jointly with Oi in Region I, which comprises 16 states in Northern, Northeastern and Southeastern Brazil. It has also operated throughout Brazil providing telephone and data transmission services since June 2002, when it met the required universal access goals and was licensed to operate all over Brazil through code 31.