India Launches New Multimedia Mobile Satellite System To Facilitate 3G Deployment

Press Trust Of India: Indian government has approved the launch of a new multi-media mobile satellite system ‘INSAT-4E’ at an estimated cost of Rs 269 crore ($60 million), which will usher in the latest ‘3G’ mobile phone technology and improve broadcasting in the country.

“Union Cabinet today gave its approval to undertake design, develop and launch GSAT-6 or INSAT-4E, a multi-media mobile satellite mission,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi told reporters after the meeting. “It will have three main benefits — introduction of satellite digital multi-media service, demonstration of mobile satellite application to strategic and social sectors and advancing the frontiers of satellite technology using large unfurlable antenae,” he said.

The Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) services would complement and provide hub interconnectivity to 2.5G and 3G networks.
The new system will offer a Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) service, via mobile phones and mobile video/audio receivers for vehicles.
This satellite will also provide a platform for developing techniques and technologies which will be useful in future satellite based mobile communication applications such as demonstration of large unfurlable antenna in spacecraft, handheld ground terminals and network management techniques.

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