Eurosat-Ukraine is an affiliate of Altegrosky, a provider of VSAT satellite-delivered telecoms services in Russia and CIS countries. The company said it would package the Tooway services to offer download speeds of up to 10 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 4 Mbps, and would target rural areas with poor ADSL and mobile broadband coverage.

   Altegrosky General Manager Sergey Pekhterev asserted that more than 10 million households are not served by any Internet access in the Ukraine’s rural and suburban areas. “This represents an addressable market. Our new partnership with Skylogic and Eutelsat is a powerful new platform for expanding our range of services and increasing the efficiency of the solutions we offer. Our objective with our joint effort is to tackle the problem of white spots by offering the speed and performance of Tooway to households across the Ukraine,” Pekhterev said in a statement.

Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat entered into full commercial service in May.