Collaboration aims to deliver LEO satcoms to Southern Africa’s heavy industries

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Satellite Networks; 08 July 2026; 198 views

A recently announced collaboration is set to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa.

SCAN RF Projects, an integrator of industrial communication solutions and a member of technology services provider the iOCO Group, has announced a strategic partnership with Q-KON, an engineering company and provider of Twoobii Smart Satellite Services.

SCAN RF Projects is known for building rugged, ground-level wireless networks inside remote open-cast mines, deep-pit operations and heavy industrial complexes. By pairing these local systems with Q-KON’s Twoobii-OneWeb LEO service, the partnership bridges the gap between local field operations and global cloud networks, ensuring that even the deepest and most geographically isolated sites remain continuously online.

The partnership blends SCAN RF Projects’ expertise in deploying mission-critical wireless infrastructure within highly challenging operational environments with Q-KON’s advanced satellite communication architectures. The joint service offering will focus heavily on bringing off-grid, high-speed connectivity to sectors such as mining, oil & gas, industrial automation and agriculture.

For SCAN RF Projects’ clients, the addition of Twoobii-OneWeb LEO satellite services delivers highly resilient, low-latency broadband that functions completely independently of vulnerable terrestrial networks.

With latency levels dropping below 70 milliseconds, remote sites can seamlessly run real-time applications, execute secure financial transactions and manage intensive cloud-based databases. Furthermore, the high-capacity bandwidth fully supports massive industrial data backhauls, heavy corporate traffic and automated Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring.

Reyno Eksteen, Business Unit Head at SCAN RF Projects, explains: “By integrating Q-KON’s Twoobii-OneWeb LEO capabilities into our critical connectivity portfolio, we can now provide our clients with absolute data availability. Whether utilised as a primary circuit or seamlessly paired with existing SD-WAN architectures for secondary failover, this solution guarantees maximum uptime and supports the real-time IT and OT (operational technology) convergence that modern heavy industries demand.”