Worldwide Partner for Connectivity / Initiative Aims at Improving
Education Infrastructure in Developing Countries

BETZDORF, Luxembourg--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2006--SES GLOBAL
(Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announces that its operating companies SES
ASTRA and SES AMERICOM will support the worldwide non-profit
initiative "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC). The initiative aims at
improving the communication and education infrastructure in developing
countries by launching a low cost, web-connected laptop. It is
supported by leading international players in the hard- and software
industry. SES ASTRA and SES AMERICOM will serve as worldwide partners
to provide satellite connectivity and smart ground solutions for
broadcasting, data and internet connections. SES AMERICOM CEO Edward
D. Horowitz will represent SES on the initiative's Board.

"One Laptop per Child" was launched at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland, in January and is chaired by the former head of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Nicholas
Negroponte.

As new corporate partners of the project, SES ASTRA and SES AMERICOM
will contribute important know-how for the conceptual development,
give financial support of US$ 2 million and provide space capacity on
SES' global satellite fleet to countries and organizations. The
conceptual contribution includes the development of a "one dish per
village" model, whereby the low-cost laptops with a wireless
connection receive data from local hubs connected via satellite. The
price of such laptops is expected to be around USD 100.

The involvement with the "One Laptop per Child" initiative reinforces
SES`s engagement in connectivity projects, like for example the
NEPAD's e-Schools project (www.nepad.org), a ten-year initiative
started in 2003 to connect 600,000 schools in Africa.

Comments Edward D. Horowitz, President and CEO of SES AMERICOM:
"Together with our world class partners in the OLPC initiative and the
commitment of the participating countries, we have the unique
opportunity to change the way educational resources are delivered to
schools and students in every corner of the planet by taking advantage
of satellite's inherent ability to connect without geographical
boundaries. We look forward to supporting this important global
initiative."

About SES GLOBAL www.ses-global.com

SES GLOBAL (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) wholly owns three market-leading
satellite operators, SES ASTRA in Europe, SES AMERICOM in the US and
New Skies Satellites in regions other than North America and Europe.
The Company also holds strategic participations in AsiaSat in Asia,
Star One in Latin America, SES Sirius in Europe, Ciel in Canada and
Quetzsat in Mexico. Americom Government Services provides network
solutions and bandwidth to the US government and its contractors. SES
GLOBAL provides outstanding satellite communications solutions via a
fleet of 44 satellites across the globe.

About OLPC www.laptop.org

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a Delaware-based, non-profit
organization created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to
design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently
inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge
and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments
and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child.
These machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient
that hand-cranking alone can generate sufficient power for operation.
Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access from one
connection. The pricing goal is to start near $100 and then steadily
decrease.

OLPC is based on "constructionist" theories of learning pioneered by
Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed
in Nicholas Negroponte's book, Being Digital. The corporate members
are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Brightstar, Google, Marvell, News
Corporation, Nortel, Red Hat, Quanta and SES.