SES, Global Eagle Entertainment Extend, Expand In-flight Connectivity Deal

SES and travel industry content and connectivity company Global Eagle Entertainment signed a set of multiyear multitransponder agreements for Global Eagle to get additional bandwidth through SES for its services, SES said in a news release Tuesday. SES said Global Eagle already was adding bandwidth on six of its satellites, and the agreements also will see it providing teleport services and ground infrastructure. Global Eagle also will have access to the high-throughput satellite capacity on SES-12, SES-14 and SES-15, which are to be launched in 2017, it said.