Local television (TV) channels would not require installing any earth station to get service from country’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I.
“We would introduce alternative service for the TV channels to minimize their cost,” Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited (BCSCL) Chairman Dr Shahjahan Mahmood told BSS on Saturday.
Mentioning that installation of earth station requires a big cost for the TV channels, he said: “They would connect the TV channels with their ground station through optical fiber for transmission.”
Dr Mahmood said they would do a trial run without earth station by using “fiber optic based service” to the state-owned Bangladesh Television within 4/5 days. “We would replicate this service gradually to the private TV stations.”
Meanwhile, the French manufacturer Thales Alenia Space on Friday handed over the controlling authority of Bangabandhu-I to BCSCL, which was launched by the SpaceX last May 12 from Florida to the orbit.
