• Media City Qatar and Es’hailSat have launched service packages covering satellite distribution, teleport access, colocation, playout and media management
  • The offer puts the organisations' April cooperation agreement into commercial use for companies licensed by Media City Qatar

The fact

Media City Qatar and Es'hailSat have launched special infrastructure packages for companies licensed by Media City Qatar. Announced at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, the offer is the first commercial rollout under a cooperation agreement the two organisations signed in April.

The packages include direct-to-home television distribution, broadcast contribution, broadband and enterprise connectivity, access to Es'hailSat's Qatar teleport, antenna hosting, colocation, playout and media-asset management. The April agreement had identified many of the same services as areas for cooperation, alongside backup and disaster recovery. Es'hailSat operates the Es'hail-1 and Es'hail-2 satellites and a 50,000-square-metre teleport in Qatar. Neither organisation has published package prices, contract terms, service levels or customer numbers.

The assessment

The April agreement described what Media City Qatar and Es'hailSat wanted to work on. They are now putting those services into packages that licensed companies can actually buy. That could make life easier for broadcasters or digital-media companies that would otherwise arrange satellite capacity, teleport access, colocation and playout separately. But a bundled contract does not remove the technical boundaries between those systems. A channel can still fail at playout, during terrestrial transport, inside the teleport or on the satellite link.

For BTW readers, the next useful detail is how Es'hailSat handles those hand-offs for customers buying several services together. Clear service levels and one support route would make the package more than a convenient way of buying existing products from the same supplier.

What to watch

Watch for the first named customers, package pricing and published service levels. A deployment using both Es'hailSat's teleport and managed broadcast services would show how closely the different parts of the offer are actually integrated and who takes responsibility when something goes wrong.