IEC Telecom Group + BFMTV—Supply + Management (SatBroadcasting™—Modems + SATCOM)

[SatNews] BFMTV, the most watched live news gathering channel in France has renewed its broadband satellite modems fleet and its commitment to IEC Telecom Group for a few more years.

After three years of a successful partnership, BFMTV has decided to extend its commitment to IEC Telecom for the supply of the new Inmarsat HDR (High Data Rate) BGAN, as well as the management of its satellite communications. With high mobility constraints, BFMTV reporters and journalists will be able to deploy their technical equipment on the field even more quickly and capture the best images and videos that are making headlines. BFMTV also selected Quicklink, an IEC Telecom Group company, for the supply of encoding video licenses allowing high quality video live broadcasting from the field to the studios/ headquarters.

“With the renewal of our broadband satellite modems and the acquisition of video compression technology, our teams on the ground will be able to benefit from the latest products and satellite services available on the market. It will definitively ease their missions. IEC Telecom provides us with an exceptional worldwide support, as well as a dedicated online platform: OPTISIM, to ensure the remote management of our satellites communication fleet” said Quentin Guiné, Maintenance and Support Manager at BFMTV.

With nearly 10 million daily viewers, teams covering major events on all continents, BFMTV is a major, live news channel in France. IEC Telecom products and value-added services are critical to their staff and ensure them reliability, mobility and effectiveness wherever they are located.