NileSat: #3 “in 12 months”
Cairo-based NileSat has spent much of the past year looking for a mechanism to enable the business to get a third satellite into orbit. NileSat’s chief engineer (and de-factor CEO) is Salah Hamza, who admits to having had conversations with Intelsat, SES Astra and Eutelsat about possible joint-venture opportunities. “We have spoken to many people. At this stage we are still in discussions. We have met with Intelsat, and have another meeting scheduled. We have met with SES in Luxembourg, and we have frequent meetings with Eutelsat. We’ve even had friendly meetings with New Skies, but nothing beyond that. We are hopeful that something might emerge, but it is too early to be more specific than this. However, we see real progress being made within the next year. It has to happen because we are running out of capacity.”

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