General Satellite Corporation Digital television in your country 2010 General Information General Satellite Corporation (founded en 1991) is an international scientific and production company with headquarters in Saint Petersburg representing the best high-technology radio-electronic equipment Leader of Russian telecommunications business-community • The number of staff in General Satellite is more than 1,5 thousand persons. The Corporation has its own production units in Russia and other counties (the Corporation enterprises are able to produce up to 10 million digital satellite, terrestiral and cable STB per year). Our branches and offices are operating in many countries: China, France, United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Serbia, Ukraine. Projects of General Satellite •General Satellite Corporation is actively engaged in the process of digitalization of television in Russia and other countries. We managed to implement in short terms and relying only on our own forces such well known and rapidly growing projects as: • “Tricolor TV”: the fastest growing DTH project in the world. • “Platforma HD”: the largest HD television package in the territory of Eastern Europe. •“Platforma DV”: a package of digital satellite television channels of enhanced quality in MPEG 4 format for modern flat-screen TV-sets. The total number of subscribers of these projects is over 6 million households. • project carried out together with the company satellite HD 3D-channel in the territory of Eastern Europe. : launch of the first Offers of General Satellite General Satellite Corporation has its honour to offer you cooperation in the field of: I. Implementation of digital satellite broadcasting operator II. Digitalization of the country’s terrestrial television Launch of satellite TV operator I. Launch of satellite TV operator In many countries, the distribution of the population in the territory is not uniform, and due to this fact the problem to create an operator of satellite TV assumes importance. General Satellite Corporation has a unique experience in the field of satellite broadcasting. Launch of satellite TV operator Our corporation is ready to offer you: – Modern high quality digital TV – A comprehensive approach to project development in your country – Competitive offer for the supply of satellite set-top boxes and other equipment in any price category – Possibility to organize the production of STB in your country – Transfer of Russian advanced telecommunications technologies – Own production of the unique content of TV programs – Effective organization of pay-TV Digitalization of terrestial TV II.Transition to digital format of terrestrial television General Satellite Corporation is ready to offer your country a comprehensive approach to the digitization of terrestrial television by creation of public multiplex and commercial. Digitalization of terrestial TV Within the bounds of the comprehensive approach, General Satellite Corporation is ready to create a system which consists of the following elements: 1. Transmission equipment 2. Receiving equipment 3. The efficient use of infrastructure 4. Creation of localized content Digitalization of terrestial TV Advantages due to cooperation with General Satellite Corporation in the context of digitalization of terrestrial television broadcasting: • Direct investment in the economy of your country • Release of limited frequency resource, that is one of the most • Valuable and expensive resources of the modern world • Significant fiscal contribution to the budget • Transfer of high technologies in the field of telecommunications • Quality affordable devices for subscribers • The digital popular TV of the highest quality throughout the country Advantages of CSMW The technological basis of digitalization is the CSMW: developed by General Satellite Control System Middleware. ADVANTAGES: - Interactive TV provides viewers participation - Practical realization of e-government functions - Ability to address all viewers or a group of them TV-chat - Effective protection of programming content and copyright - Country Information security - Development of the market of alternative advertising TV-mail Use for the aims of Civil Protection Thanks to CSMW it makes possible the introduction of instantaneous warning of the population about emergencies. Principal advantages: Broad coverage Possibility to influence in a particular group of population Speed and safety Multilevel effects OUR MISSION In your country we are ready to work both independently or in in technology and business cooperation with the public or private partners interested in long term mutually beneficial cooperation. The mission of General Satellite Corporation bases on 3 postulates: 1 2 3 television systems We digitalize countries We create popular digital television We introduce new generation If this information is interesting for you, it will be pleasure for us to invite you to a demonstration of our technological capabilities to the headquarters in St. Petersburg or to one of our plants in the Kaliningrad region (Russia). In addition, we can arrange a presentation outside of St. Petersburg to show the quality of our products and technologies. Contacts Artem Korenevskiy Foreign Broadcasting Projects Department Mob.: +7(921)845-51-90 E-mail: korenevskiy@spb.gs.ru General Satellite Corporation 4 Novoladozhskaya str. Saint Petersburg, 197110, Rusia Tel.: +7 (812) 332-86-68 Fax: +7 (812) 332-86-69 www.general-satellite.com THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION