EUTELSAT has entered the multimedia satellite arena with Skyplex an Hot Bird^TM satellites. The Hot Bird satellite mission is primarily to provide high power analogue and digital transmissions over wide geographical areas from a single orbital position dedicated to entertainment programmes and multimedia services. Today, the Hot Bird constellation includes five collocated satellites that provide 98 transponders on which over 500 channels are broadcast of which more than 470 are digital. Future Hot Bird 6 is expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2002 and will have eight transponders with the Skyplex capability. Four units will provide capacity for the FSS band channels in the Ku-band. The other four can be used with channels either in the Ka-band or in the Ku-band. The selectivity of the channels that will be connected to the Skyplex units can be done independently on the uplink and the downlink, on a channel by channel basis. EUTELSAT is currently deploying a new wide band demand assigned multiple access service named D-SAT 2000 ATM. The key concept of this new offering is the creation of an “open network”: where each member can connect with everybody else, in an “on demand” basis as much as in a “leased line” framework. The D-SAT 2000 ATM can be positioned as far as the other services of EUTELSAT are concerned in the high end of the marker. The service is operated on the EUTELSAT satellite. An original tariff structure is offered to give a cost-effective service to the final users for any combination of pre assigned multiple access (PAMA) and DAMA with a user's real consumption charges (per minute charges). (6 pages)