Myanmar in Deal for Intelsat Satellite Transponder Capacity

Myanmar's Ministry of Transport and Communications signed a multiyear deal with Intelsat giving it multi-transponder capacity on two Intelsat satellites for deployment of the nation's wireless communications infrastructure and expansion of enterprise broadband access, Intelsat said in a news release Friday. It said the ministry will use C-band on Intelsat 902 and Ku-band on Intelsat 906 for a very small aperture terminal network and cellular backhaul services, and move by 2018 to high-power services on Intelsat 39.