SES, Echostar Negotiate Deal for Mexican Satellite Slot

摘要

SES Global and EchoStar Communications Corp. want to move a damaged EchoStar satellite into a Mexican orbital slot in time to meet the Mexican government's July deadline for an SES-backed company to start operations from that orbital slot, according to industry officials and documents EchoStar filed with U.S. regulators. The companies are running out of time. Under the conditions of a Mexican government license that the SES-backed QuetzSat, S De R.L. De C.V. won in late 2004, QuetzSat must begin operating a direct-broadcast television satellite from Mexico's orbital slot at 77 degrees west longitude by July 10 or face lengthier, and costlier, regulatory procedures.