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SES Announced Year to Date Results

SES S.A. announced its financial results for the nine months ended business continues to grow with recent customer successes
30 September 2019 with financial performance continuing to be in including important incremental business on SES-15 in support
line with SES’ expectations; sequential growth in quarterly revenue of our aero service provider customers; important business
and EBITDA and financial outlook unchanged. Steve Collar, CEO, aviation partnerships with Collins Aerospace and Vista Global;
commented: “For the seventh consecutive quarter, our results are our Signature Maritime Solutions now enabling connectivity in
in line with our expectations and with the outlook that we have the Mediterranean; and deploying ‘life-changing’ broadband
given to the market, reflecting our on-going focus on execution services that will allow our partners to improve connectivity in
in the core of our business. As expected, we are seeing revenue rural areas across Indonesia and Colombia. I am excited by the
and EBITDA expansion flowing through in the second half of 2019 progress that we are making with O3b mPOWER and our vision
with strong control over costs and discretionary spending and for a connected, seamless, cloud-scale MEO/GEO network. We
the continued rationalization and simplification of our business are through the critical design phase for O3b mPOWER and have
and organization. Execution remains the focus for the rest of secured the launch of the first seven satellites with SpaceX for
the year as we look to close out 2019 with a strong Q4 outturn, 2021. Importantly, we have partnered with Microsoft to extend
much as we did in 2018 and implied in our financial outlook which Azure ExpressRoute services globally across our network, with our
remains unchanged. In Video, we completed the combination of combined customers benefiting from the reach and performance
our infrastructure and services capabilities; launched a dedicated of the SES network. All of this will be enabled by an automation
TV platform in Ethiopia; secured important renewals in our core and orchestration platform based on Open Network Automation
neighborhoods; and introduced new products, such as a Satellite/ Platform (ONAP) in partnership with Amdocs and leveraging our
OTT synchronization capability, managed cloud playout through in-house Adaptive Resource Control (ARC) under development
our partnership with Microsoft Azure and the further development with Kythera to deliver unprecedented levels of flexibility and
of our in-house orchestration platform SES 360. Our Networks network efficiency. All of which will make it easy for our customers
to get the very best service, delivered when and where they want it,
at the right economics and with an unprecedented array of service
offerings and enablement. This was underscored with the recent
announcement that, together with Thales Avionics, we have
successfully completed seamless and uninterrupted multi-orbit
inflight interoperability demonstrations, paving the way for our
MEO network to enhance and disrupt aviation services much as
it has in cruise. Finally, the FCC Chairman has reiterated his belief
that there will be ‘results to show in the Fall’ from the ongoing
proceeding to repurpose C-Band to support the rapid and broad-
based roll out of 5G services in the U.S. while protecting the 120
million TV and radio households who rely on the networks that our
customers support. The C-Band Alliance is engaged proactively
with all stakeholders in the U.S. to ensure that our proposal
delivers a fair deal for all.

Blake Broadcasting Selects SES for satBroadcasting™ Services

BBN (Blake Broadcasting) has executed services in order for CBNN to focus on the firm’s satellite broadcasts throughout
a 3-year+ deal with SES as its exclusive delivering the highest quality content to Asia and North America as well as the
broadcast Satellite Network Provider for their audiences worldwide. Bob Blake, company’s linear television expansion
CBNN Networks in Europe, Asia and North CEO of Blake Broadcasting and a founder plans throughout 2020. In addition, MX1
America. CBNN is a growing network of of CBNN, stated that Oak Park Capital and (now merged into SES) will manage overall
cable (linear television) properties and several news networks are very pleased channel content distribution, management,
OTT Networks that reaches more than to work with SES as they are the premiere playout and monetization integration. That
400 million homes. SES works with the broadcast satellite provider in the world. organization’s exceptional level of service
world’s largest live sports, news and The company is especially honored to will allow CBNN to primarily concentrate on
event organizations, and takes care be a selected broadcaster on the Astra providing the highest quality news, sports,
of the distribution networks, playout 1M or 19.2 E satellite — broadcast e-sports and entertainment content for the
workflows, content management and operations in Europe will be based out of firm’s channels.
monetization services and all backend Luxembourg and SES will also manage

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