5th September 2012: French owned satellite operator EutelSat is poised to beam into the Australian market after securing a carrier licence and announcing that it will launch a new satellite covering Australia by year’s end.
In late August, EutelSat’s US arm EutelSat America was granted an Australian telecommunications carrier licence by ACMA. Eutelsat currently has a network of 28 satellites which broadcast 4,000 digital television channels over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas.
The company has yet to reveal its local operational plans but public government documents reveal that the company has engaged a Canberra based lobbyist on its behalf, John Blackwell.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/french_bird_beams_into_aus/