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[Satellite News 01-04-12] Greek telco Forthnet made a significant strategic move last November in launching its new Forthnet Satellite Broadband service on Eutelsat's Ka-Sat satellite. Forthnet Chief Commercial Officer Yiannis Kavaklis told Satellite News that the service launch aims to target about 800,000 customers in Greece that are not served by terrestrial options.
"This is a relatively huge number of people in Greece. Satellite is the only technology to reach all these people and meet their demand for true broadband services," he said. "We already address the rest of the population using our owned fixed line network for broadband ADSL and voice services. We can also bundle satellite services along with pay-TV services, giving a real ultimate combination to our customers, bringing true broadband experience and prime TV content to Greek households."
Forthnet already operates the Nova TV digital broadcasting service in Greece and Cyprus and has a large presence across the regional market, serving about 760,000 households in the two territories with communications services. Approximately 130,000 of those customers take a combination...