
G Sat is a subscription-based Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite television service commercially available in the Philippines. G Sat is owned by the Global Broadcasting and Multimedia Inc. (GBMI), a multinational corporation based in Samoa, duly registered in the Philippines with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
GSAT is Global Broadcasting and Multimedia Inc. (GBMI) In the Philippines, GSAT is licensed by the NTC under the name of First United Broadcasting Corporation (FUBC) with a trade name of GSAT. First United Broadcasting Corporation is a domestic corporation that provides G SAT, the biggest and widest satellite or direct-to-home TV service in Asia. It is has been granted franchise by the National Telecommunications Commission or NTC to provide DTH service in the Philippine territory. FUBC is operated and managed by professional management groups engaged in wired and wireless media services. Its pivotal function is to market G SAT in the country and make it readily available for the Filipinos. An affiliate of GLOBAL-DESTINY CABLE.
It is operated and managed by international and professional management groups engaged in the business of: satellite wireless transmission, WIMAX transmission, landline transmission, satellite internet data transmission, satellite direct-to-home TV operation, terrestrial television operation, broadband data service, head end in the sky operation, content aggregation, production and distribution, consolidation of telecom and broadcasting management. Channel content is received from program providers, compressed and broadcast via SES New Skies NSS 11 in DVB and NTSC color format exclusively to its subscribers using the Integrated Receiver-Decoder.
To receive DTH broadcast signals, subscribers must acquire a 60 cm, a satellite dish antenna, an Integrated Receiver-Decoder (IRD) and a Smart Card. IRD is the digital recorder or receiver which is a small sized box required to receive DTH signals. IRD receives the signals from the 60 cm. mini-dish and then decodes it. There is a remote that comes with the IRD that makes it easy to operate. Smart Card performs generation of authorization of EMM and ECM decryption and interpretation to determine whether the consumer shall be granted access to the content. G Sat will be equipped with a conditional access system, employing Conax technology, to secure and protect its broadcast content from signal piracy.
As of 2008, GBMI is currently on the test phase of satellite signal and planned dealership.