Eutelsat concluded a deal with Hughes to provide...

Eutelsat concluded a deal with Hughes to provide high-throughput capacity to Brazil on the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite, scheduled for 2016 launch, Eutelsat said in a news release Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1gRCKKn). It will host a Ka-band payload with 24 spotbeams “of which 16 will cover a significant portion of the Brazilian population and generate over 24 Gbps of throughput,” Eutelsat said. The deal will be a springboard for Hughes to expand mass market broadband services to consumers and businesses in Brazil that are unserved or underserved by terrestrial networks, it said.