MultiChoice Selects Intelsat to Support South African Mobile Broadcast TV Trial

Intelsat today announced that MultiChoice, a leading South African
direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, selected Intelsat to support
its mobile broadcast TV trial in the metropolitan areas of

Johannesburg,
Soweto,
Pretoria and

Cape Town. The trial seeks to
refine the transmission of Digital Video Broadcasting to Handheld
(DVB-H) technology as well as understand more about the viewing
patterns and content preferences of subscribers for mobile TV.

From its headquarters in Randburg, South Africa, MultiChoice is
uplinking 10 to 12 trial channels of sports, entertainment, news,
music and specially developed “made for mobile” content to Intelsat’s
IS-902 satellite, which then distributes the content to multiple
terrestrial transmitter sites throughout the trial region.

“MultiChoice has always been at the forefront of technological
developments, and though mobile broadcast TV is in its infancy, we
believe that there will be a growing demand for it in South Africa in
the near future; especially in light of the 2010 World Cup,” said
Gerdus van Eeden, MultiChoice Chief Technology Officer. “Intelsat has
long partnered with us in the expansion of our services, and we are confident that its network will continue to support us as we develop
our mobile TV platform.”

Stephen Spengler, Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa
and Asia-Pacific Sales, stated, “We are proud to work with MultiChoice
on this important trial. Enabling innovative applications is an
essential aspect of Intelsat’s strategy to create customer value and
to grow demand for satellite-based services. This project represents
Intelsat’s third mobile video application, as we are supporting
systems that are in commercial deployment in Europe and in the

United
States.”