SES and VimpelCom, a Russia-based mobile carrier, signed an agreement for...

SES and VimpelCom, a Russia-based mobile carrier, signed an agreement for additional capacity on SES’s NSS-9 satellite to deliver what SES called high-quality data services in eastern Russia. The capacity “will be used to provide data services to VimpelCom’s corporate clients based in the Kamchatka, Magadan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky regions” and enable VimpelCom to optimize the use of satellite capacity for their 3G network in the far eastern Russia and East Siberia region,” SES said in a press release (http://xrl.us/bod6go).