Issue Date: 1st July 2009 17.40 CET


Solaris Mobile Files Insurance Claim


Solaris Mobile and its shareholders, Eutelsat Communications and SES Astra, have announced that the investigation of its S-band payload has confirmed significant non-compliance from its original specifications. Solaris Mobile believes that these non-compliances meet criteria to file a claim for the full insured value of the payload. This claim has been filed.


The technical findings also indicate that the company should be able to offer some, but not all of the services it was planning to offer. This under-pins the company’s confidence that it will be able to meet the commitments made to the European Union according to the European Selection and Authorisation Process (ESAP). In this process, it had applied for and was awarded S-band spectrum to provide Mobile Satellite Services. Solaris Mobile remains entirely committed to provide these services to the European market.


The S-band payload is hosted on the W2A satellite launched on 3rd April 2009.



For further information please contact:


Mary Crotty, Mary Crotty PR

mary@marycrottypr.ie / 00 353 87 2567751


Yassine Dahbi, Solaris Mobile

yassine.dahbi@solarismobile.com

00353 86 795 4800 / 0033 14 3268732