Satellite Networks

Two major agreements in Africa will provide network operators with far greater connectivity options in and out of the continent...

A mobile operator based in Somalia has commissioned satellite communications backbone infrastructure...

Nationwide ATM networks could soon be a reality in several African countries following the development of new high-speed satellite broadband solutions...

Madagascar will soon have island-wide high-speed broadband and telephony services delivered by satellite...

A satellite service launching across South Sudan will provide wide reaching, high performance, satellite broadband Internet to unserved and underserved locations and communities across the country...

Satellite service providers, carrier and Internet service providers across Africa will soon be able to provide connectivity through the continent’s first vendor-neutral satellite earth station...

A new bandwidth agreement will provide for high speed Internet connectivity to five of the islands in the southern group of the Cook Islands archipelago.

Romania’s first 100G channels are now live, with the country’s leading cable operator providing services over its existing network...

A new agreement will bring voice, Internet, TV and video communication services to customers in Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia...

With the launch of the West African Cable System (WACS) – an ultra high-capacity 14,500km-long system connecting eleven African countries to the UK and Portugal – South Africa’s international broadband capacity has grown by 40%...

One of India’s biggest communications providers has announced its intent to become an anchor tenant on a new cable system aiming to provide the world’s fastest link between Brazil and the US...

 A major satellite communications provider in Africa has signed a new partnership with a major teleport services provider to expand operations and service delivery in the African and Middle East markets...

 A number of international organizations have united in expressing their concerns over the Space Assets Protocol, a new international legislation sponsored by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)...

Telecom operators can now provide 3G mobile broadband to isolated and under-served areas via satellite backhaul...

One of China’s leading operators is expanding its broadband access network...

A Slovakian subsidiary of the Enel Group is enhancing the communications and emergency broadcast system at its nuclear power plant in Mochovce, Slovakia...

Russia’s largest telecoms firm, Rostelecom, is increasing the speed and capacity of its optical backbone network, which moves vast amounts of data from Europe through Russia to the Middle East...

As a result of recent developments in North Africa’s Maghreb countries, particularly in Libya, there is a need for local satellite services to provide broadband and VoIP connectivity for government, commerce and individuals in both the urban areas where the infrastructure has been damaged, and also in rural areas which have not been properly served in the past...

Preparations for the upcoming launch of the Arabsat 5C satellite have been finalised by Central European Telecom Services (CETel Group)...

Spanning 20 provinces, Afghanistan’s largest VSAT deployment has been implemented by the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) in partnership with broad-spectrum tech firm Insyndia...

Rising demand for broadband services in South America has prompted the satellite service provider atrexx to add a new service platform to its product portfolio...

Global satellite operator SES S.A. announced today that it has signed an agreement with YellowSat, a French start-up company that provides Internet connectivity to enterprises, governments and institutions in Africa...

The Chinese city of Suzhou is the site of a new state-of-the-art base station antenna testing facility being opened by CommScope...

Talia is expanding its iDirect Evolution (DVB-S2) services to South America, served through Telesat Telstar 12, KU band. The same network provides services for the Middle East, Europe, Russia, North America, West, Central and East Africa...

A new agreement for high powered Ku-band transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satellite has been signed by Pakistan’s leading satellite service provider Supernet and SES World Skies, a division of SES S.A...

Paul Chester Children’s Hope Foundation (PCCHF) is partnering with Guardian 24/7, a telemedicine company founded by military physician Dr. Sean O’Mara, to bring greater medical access to patients in Kenya...

The world’s two fastest growing economies, India and China, will soon enjoy a direct underground terrestrial link offering seamless connectivity to customers transiting India or China to reach key global destinations...

Arianespace has successfully launched Intelsat S.A.’s newest satellite, the Intelsat 17 (IS-17), from Kourou, French Guiana...

Russia’s increasing need for business communications capabilities has prompted VimpelCom to sign a capacity deal with SES World Skies in order to increase the volume of its services in Eastern Siberia and the Far East of Russia...

Satellite broadband services are set to increase in South Africa following the announcement of an agreement between SES S.A and SkyVine, a South African ICT provider, under which SES will supply its ASTRA2Connect broadband platform...

NYNEX Network Solutions, a satellite network operator headquartered in Germany, has announced that it has partnered with CETel (Central European Telecom Services) to expand its satellite IP network and introduce new broadband services on the NSS-12 satellite...

Subscribers of the Israeli broadband service provider Bezeq will soon have access to super fast Internet access at 200 megabit per second (Mbps) over existing copper cables...

O3b Networks announced today that the company has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Netcom Africa, a leading provider of satellite and wireless broadband solutions to provide low latency, high capacity broadband connectivity to ships and offshore platforms in Nigeria utilizing O3b’s Medium Earth Orbit technology...