Mumbai, December 7: London-Based Europe Star Ltd is targeting governments, corporates and internet service providers (ISPs) for its two geostationary, all Ku-band satellites which can be used to provide distance education, internet access, and fast data transmission. The services will be launched from August next year after the launch of satellites in July next year.In a news conference, Europe Star Country Manager (India and SAARC) Ravi Sharma said Europe Star's satellites could be used by the governments to connect small and inaccessible villges in the far-flung places to provide distance education with teachers as facilitators. The same satellite could be used to connect villages with rural telephones. ``There is no need to set up a separate fibre optic cables to connect each and every city, towns or villages in India. These satellites can be used as internet backbone within the country and to connect to Europe, Far East and Southern Africa,'' he said. For the US markets, Europe Star has tied up withother satellite services companies.Europe Star will scout for alliances in India to distribute its services in the country. ``We will form partnerships with Indian entities for ground segment operations as well as for other distributing distance education, internet and intranet services,''he said. Europe Star is a 51:49 joint venture between Alcatel Spacecom of France and Loral Space & Communications Ltd of the US. Europe Star will carry 30 transponders with 8 focused on India.
