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Europe Online celebrates
4 Years “Internet in the Sky” with
150 € Annual E-DSL via Satellite Offer
across Europe on ASTRA and EUTELSAT
Luxembourg, 16 May 2003
" The beautiful thing about satellites", declared Candace Johnson, founder and President of Europe
Online as well as one of the initiators of the ASTRA satellite system and Loral Cyber Star-Teleport
Europe, " is that they are totally blind to barriers of any kind and create an immediate
infrastructure for new technologies, new markets, and new applications."
Four years ago on 14 May 1999, Europe Online became the first to introduce mass-consumer Broadband
Internet via Satellite on a major scale across Europe on two transponders on the ASTRA satellite
system. “Just as Europe led the world in bringing "Freedom of Choice", multi-lingual,
multi-cultural, ‘Direct to Home’ satellite television to its citizens in the 80's, we wanted to
bring those same citizens the opportunity to have interactivity, broadband connectivity, and a
converged Internet/Television experience in their home via those same satellite dishes at the
dawn of the 21st century", declared Europe Online’s founder.
" A long series of firsts ensued,” commented Johnson, “commencing with the first Broadband Internet
transmissions with 2Mbps download speeds, 1 Mbps IP Video Streams, DSL speeds of 768 Kbps even
though we did not know this was DSL speed!”
Europe Online was also the first to offer end-users the possibility of using their existing ISP via
a proxy network for the return channel, thus providing a totally open-standards, hybrid
satellite/terrestrial network. The company wrote the specs for open-standard DVB-IP reception cards
and gave the first order of 100,000 cards, slashing consumer costs in half. Europe Online was also
the first to delivers full-length films complete with embedded digital rights management for
pay-per-view to end-users desktops.
It was also the first to enable end-users to download heavy files anywhere from the net as opposed
to walled garden approach in multicast fashion. Recently, the broadband satellite Internet operator
announced the ‘marriage’ of the unicast/multicast functionality in the client for the end-user
(see related press release of 08 May 2003).
"To name just two more accomplishments among a plethora of firsts, Europe Online is the first to
offer its DSL via satellite service in 8 languages across Europe and the first to be on Europe's
two major satellite systems,” noted the company’s president.
“We would like to thank all those who have championed and supported Europe Online in the last four
years to become and remain one of the world’s premier and largest Broadband DSL Satellite Internet
Access and Content Delivery Networks,” concluded Johnson. “In particular, we would like to thank
our loyal users who have continued to choose Europe Online as their DSL via Satellite Internet
provider over later entrants in the market and our wonderful international team. With the
introduction of our Special Anniversary offer of 150 € E-DSL via Satellite anywhere in Europe one
year long including free DVB-PCI Card, we are completing yet another important step in our goal
to bring citizens across Europe immediate and democratic access to DSL via satellite.”
For more information, please contact:
| Europe Online Investments S.A. |
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| Candace Johnson |
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| Tel. +352 719 785 1 |
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| E-Mail: cj@europeonline.net |
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