[Satellite TODAY 12-02-09] KVH Industries signed a multi-year agreement with Telesat to utilize the African coverage of Telstar 11N satellite, Telesat announced Dec. 1.
    Telstar 11N’s Ku-band capacity over Africa will support KVH’s mini-VSAT broadband service for commercial and leisure boaters. KVH is in a joint effort with ViaSat to offer broadband network services for vessels, aircraft, and other mobile markets on a global basis.
    “The West African region, with its offshore oil and gas fields, has long been an important part of KVH’s plans for expanding our mini-VSAT Broadband network. However, KVH could not launch a service that met our quality standards until Telstar 11N became available. Now with Telstar 11N’s African beam, KVH has live coverage, or is under contract to provide such coverage, to virtually every major maritime region on the globe,” KVH Vice President of Sales Brent Bruun said in a statement.