Satellite Networks

Zimbabwean internet service provider Dandemutande Investments has announced the relaunch of its iWayAfrica Ka-band VSAT service.

Global wholesale carrier for voice, mobile data and capacity services BICS has launched RouteFlex, an automated business continuity and optimisation solution developed to address the need for enhanced connectivity in Africa.

Tanzanian market leader TTCL has launched 100% national broadband coverage.

Project Loon has signed an agreement to provide internet coverage in Sri Lanka, marking the first formal agreement between the Google initiative and a national government.

Intelsat SA has signed a multi-year agreement with Axesat SA for satellite services on its high-performance Intelsat EpicNG platform.

Globalstar has launched a new gateway in Gabarone, Botswana, allowing it to deliver affordable simplex coverage over the African continent.

O3b Networks has announced a multi-year agreement to provide additional trunking services to the Palau National Communications Corporation (PNCC).

O3b Networks has signed strategic framework agreement to provide IP trunking services to Bharti Airtel for Timor-Leste.

O3b Networks is providing additional trunking services to Digicel PNG in Papua New Guinea, the Digicel Group’s largest market.

O3b Networks is providing trunking services to SpeedCast for its customer Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA).

Zimbabwean incumbent TelOne has signed an extension to its connectivity contract with Avanti.

Gondwana International Networks (GIN), parent company to Africa Online, is expanding its VSAT services in Tanzania.

Gilat Satellite Networks is providing a Ku-band SkyEdge II VSAT network for the Filipino market leader PLDT.

Uruguay’s OpenSky, the systems integrator for state-owned operator Antel, has ordered an initial VSAT network for the operator from Gilat Satellite Networks.

MEASAT has announced that customers on the AFRICASAT-1a satellite will now be able to benefit from additional cost savings given the successful test of 64APSK modulation on the satellite’s high-powered pan-African beam.

Mobile satellite services operator Thuraya has partnered with SOS Children’s Villages International’s Gulf Area Office to bring satellite connectivity to remote communities in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Myanmar-based systems integrator Terabit Wave has ordered Gilat Satellite Networks’ Satcom-On-The-Move terminals for a Myanmar governmental agency. 

Orange Niger is utilizing capacity from satellite services provider Intelsat to expand its cellular network coverage in rural regions of Niger.

Algerian VSAT operator Divona has selected Eutelsat Communications to consolidate its network connectivity offer to mobile telecom operators and enterprises.

Yemeni operator TeleYemen is expanding its agreement with Intelsat to provide additional support for its VSAT network within Yemen.

Satellite service provider Gilat has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement under which Gilat Colombia will use Intelsat Ku-band capacity to support the Kioscos Vive Digital 2 (KVDII) project.

Voting technology and services provider Smartmatic has been awarded a contract by Brazil´s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to guarantee data and voice communications in the 15 most isolated states during the general elections to be held in October.

Gilat Satcom has established a new Point of Presence (PoP) for its East African broadband network in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. 

SES and CETel have signed a new capacity agreement for service on SES’s NSS-7 satellite located at 20 degrees West.

Satellite provider Speedcast has announced that it will expand its Tier 1 IP backbone into Vanuatu.

Intelsat and Vodacom are partnering to bring a managed broadband service to sub-Saharan Africa aimed at the small office/home office (SOHO) and small/medium enterprise (SME) users.

Thuraya and Bharti Airtel have announced an agreement to provide Airtel Africa customers with mobile satellite products and services across 17 countries in Africa.

Nawras, one of the largest wireless operators in Oman, has signed a capacity agreement on SES’s NSS-6 satellite.

VSAT systems operator and integrator Nynex satellite OHG has grown its multi-million dollar contract with Avanti Communications to extend satellite broadband coverage across Libya.

A new satellite service being launched by Gilat Satellite Networks and Thaicom aims to enhance broadband connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region.

Gilat Satellite Networks has leveraged its extensive expertise in rural cellular backhaul to provide an affordable, end-to-end solution known as CellEdge.

Globecomm Systems has announced a contract extension with Avanti to deploy satellite broadband services to thousands of businesses in South Africa.