Founded in
1976 by the 21 member-states of the Arab League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the Arab world for over
30 years.
Now one of the world’s
top satellite operators, and by far the
leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, it carries
340 TV channels and
160 Radio stations, reaching tens of millions of homes in over
100 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, including an audience of more than 164 million viewers within the 21 Arab countries alone ("2007 MENA Sat-TV Landscape:" study performed by IPSOS-stats for Arabsat), and delivering hundreds of thousands of vital telecommunication (
Click here to view Arabsat's coverage areas). Operating a growing fleet of
4 satellites at the 26°East and 30.5°East positions of the geostationary orbit, Arabsat is the only satellite operator in the region offering the full spectrum of
Broadcast,
Telecommunications and
Broadband services. This translates to enough space capacity for providing a greater number than any other player in the region of TV and Radio broadcasting services, professional data network solutions, telephony & IP trunking backbone connectivity, and broadband Internet access to media and entertainment companies, corporate customers or government entities.
Arabsat is committed to stay at the forefront of
best-in-class satellite services in the ME region, continuously expanding its range of customer-oriented solutions with an unparalleled level of quality and reliability, bringing in cutting-edge technology, and providing the
largest ever amount of capacity with ever-expanding footprints to meet the growing and evolving needs of its customers across the Arab world--and way beyond. To support this ambition, Arabsat has announced in 2007 that, starting in 2008,
it will launch one new satellite every year over four years, with a second 4th Generation satellite already launched mid-2008 –
BADR-6, and three 5th Generation spacecrafts either under construction or RFP, to be launched over the following three years; and more to come.