Focus: Africa
April 23, 2024
Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has deployed the company’s first base station in Nigeria that has connectivity via SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, AMN announced last week. AMN has deployed over 4,000 base stations for cellular backhaul via satellite across Africa and Latin America since 2018. Last year, the company signed a commercial agreement to use the Starlink…
March 13, 2024
Omnispace is collaborating with African mobile network operator MTN to explore using S-band for satellite services in MTN's portfolio of wireless service. The companies announced the agreement on Tuesday and plan to look at integrating MTN's terrestrial mobile networks with the Omnispace non-terrestrial (NTN) network to serve consumer mobile and enterprise IoT services. MTN is…
February 27, 2024
Intelsat is working with longtime partner Openserve to modernize more than 900 network sites to advance satellite connectivity throughout South Africa. Openserve is Africa’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider and a subsidiary of Telkom SA SOC. The project, announced Tuesday, will improve network performance and help deliver higher throughputs to end customers at a lower cost.…
February 1, 2024
Q-KON, a satellite service provider based in Africa, has implemented Eutelsat OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity at a site in Africa as part of a broader roll-out. Q-KON integrated Eutelsat OneWeb connectivity at the first branch of a "leading digital bank" to offer intranet, SD-WANs, branch online management, data backhauls, staff and customer Wi-Fi and…