This transponder was previously for North East Asia beam and being used by a separate company, looks like SES realigned beam to South Asia and allocated it to Airtel post it was vacated by former client.
Also this makes it clear that airtel will add important channels to complete bouquet, dish d2h will follow soon. With no worries about negotiating or paying broadcasters in advance or getting best deal for long term , now operators will find it extremely easy to add new channels if they have bandwidth for it. Airtel's standard reply earlier for not adding channels was this concern itself that we can't afford to enter into costly long term higher bouquet agreement but unable to recover investment or earn profit due to limited takers for it.
Now airtel will build on boosting HD count and take Tata Sky head on to capture premium or urban subscribers. Good Times after a long wait