SES Astra has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian financial and industrial corporation Ukraine Business Group (UBG) for capacity on its 5 degrees East orbital position.
According to SES Astra, UBG plans to use the capacity for cable feeds and at this stage has no plans to launch a DTH platform.
UBG is an industry conglomerate that operates in the finance, medicine, manufacturing, agriculture, IT and media sectors. In March, it bought 30% of the business channel UBC and (later this year) 100% of the music channel A-One.
It is also currently applying for licences for Dobro-TV, Ukrainian Fashion and Z-TV.
UBG will begin to use the capacity at 5 degrees East to distribute the five channels in the second half of this year.