NSS-6 to serve as high-powered platform for
Smart Digital Communications’ two-way satellite IP network services

SINGAPORE, June 13, 2005 – New Skies Satellites (NYSE: NSE), the global satellite communications company, today announced that it has signed a significant new agreement with Malaysia’s SMART Digital Communications to deliver two-way broadband Internet transmissions in Southeast Asia via the NSS-6 satellite.

Using multiple transponders on NSS-6, SMART will offer its Ku-band two-way broadband satellite services for cost-effective, reliable and rapidly deployable applications like broadband Internet access, virtual private networks, file transfer, distance learning, VoIP, multicast services and video content delivery. The initial capacity contracted on NSS-6 gives SMART the ability to deploy its state-of-the-art Viasat Surfbeam DOCSIS network for as many as 10,000 remote terminals.

Matthew Oh, New Skies’ director of sales for Asia, said: “This agreement with SMART is a significant win for New Skies and demonstrates the versatility and efficiency of our satellite network in delivering any form of communications. We’re very excited to be working with a strong, fast growing company with a premium offering such as SMART.” 

Khairuddin Abd Rahman, SMART’s CEO, said “By combining a shared hub with the unique advantages of New Skies’ NSS-6 satellite, our network will enable service providers and enterprises to offer both broadband Internet access and video delivery service while eliminating the large up-front investment in a hub and associated hardware and management services. Now, anybody within the satellite’s vast Southeast Asia footprint can have access to our broadband Internet and video delivery services.”

SMART’s network is a high-performance IP system that provides high-bandwidth satellite forward and return channels. The system offers broadband-on-demand IP multi-service access from a central hub to remote locations with an asymmetric broadband return channel. By utilizing NSS-6 as the transmission platform, SMART’s network bypasses the traditional bottlenecks associated with the terrestrial infrastructure to provide the most remote locations throughout Malaysia and Southeast Asia with the highest-quality broadband services.

About Smart Digital Communications
The SMART Group of companies, based in Selangor, Malaysia, consists of Smart Digital Communications Berhad and its subsidiaries, Smart Broadband Satellite Sdn. Bhd. (SBSSB), and Smart Cellular Sdn. Bhd.(SCSB). Apart from its cellular infrastructure provider role, the company also focuses on satellite communication applications such as high-speed Internet access, interactive distance learning, and interactive TV. Smart is one of the largest broadband satellite service providers in the region, providing high-speed internet access via satellite to over 2000 sites under the SchoolNet project and to various SMIs, SMEs, and business corporations through its various marketing partners. For more information go to www.smartmalaysia.com.

About New Skies Satellites
New Skies Satellites is one of only four fixed satellite communications companies with global satellite coverage, offering data, video, Internet and voice communications services to a range of telecommunications carriers, broadcasters, large corporations, Internet service providers and government entities around the world. New Skies has five satellites in orbit and ground facilities around the world. The company has one additional spacecraft under construction, NSS-8, which is expected to enter commercial service in mid-2006, and also has secured certain rights to make use of additional orbital positions for future growth. New Skies is headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands, and has offices in Hong Kong, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.newskies.com.

For additional information, please contact:

New Skies Satellites
Melanie Dickie, New Skies Satellites
Tel: +31 70 306 4189
Mobile: + 31 6 25 07 33 01
mdickie@newskies.com

Matthew Oh, New Skies Satellites
Tel: +65 6238 0400
Mobile: + 65 9818 0988
moh@newskies.com

Smart Digital Communications
Rey Chan, Smart Digital Communications
Tel: + 603 5634 7181
reychan@smartmalaysia.com