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free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...
digital
direct-broadcast satellite television
Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna comm ...
service owned and operated by
ABS. Initially, ABS-2 satellite at 75° was used to broadcast 97 FTA MPEG-2 channels and one MPEG4 channel. In India, it was headed by Mr. Rajiv Khattar.
It closed down its service in India in 2018.
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History
ABS operates a fleet of five satellites; ABS-2, ABS-2A, ABS-3A, ABS-4/Mobisat-1 and ABS-6. The satellite fleet covers 93 per cent of the world’s population across the Americas, Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, CIS and Russia.
Headquartered in Bermuda, ABS has offices in the United States, UAE and Asia.
See also
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Direct-to-home television in India Direct-to-Home (DTH) television is a method of receiving satellite television by means of signals transmitted from direct-broadcast satellites. The Government of India (GoI) permitted the reception and distribution of satellite television signals i ...
References
External links
Channel list of ABS2 Free Dish on Lyngsat websiteChannel list of ABS2 Free Dish on Flysat websiteABS Freedish updates on blog
Direct broadcast satellite services
Free-to-air
2012 establishments in Bermuda