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Global satellite provider SES, which operates a large global network of satellites that can deliver video and data services to 99% of the world’s population, has today signed another extension of their existing partnership with Sky. This will see them continuing to provide capacity to support the Sky Q TV service in the UK and Ireland beyond 2029, and into the 2030s.
Sky UK has spent the past few years putting a lot more effort into pushing their new internet-based streaming platforms, Sky Glass (Sky integrated streaming TV set) and Sky Stream (streaming set-top-box), which are standalone products that use your home broadband ISP and Wi-Fi connection to stream Sky’s on-demand video content and live TV channels – without the need for a satellite dish.
However, Sky’s last agreement with SES in October 2024 confirmed that they would continue supporting existing customers of their satellite-based TV products, such as Sky Q, until 2029. That agreement also reflected a multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity and back-up services from SES’s prime video neighbourhood of 28.2/28.5 degrees East.