Focus: Africa

Israeli satellite companies Spacecom and Gilat Telecom have joined forces to roll out a high-speed, low-cost satellite service for home and office connectivity, video conferences, e-health applications, e-learning, and e-education...

Connectivity on a global and unprecedented scale has never been as important as it is today amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and deals between telcos and satellite companies carry extra resonance....

Intelsat has extended its partnership with African telecom group Liquid Telecom to connect more than 2,000 additional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) terminals across the continent. The two companies have...

Eutelsat has inked a multi-year contract with Travel Africa Network to broadcast its first African travel channel in HD from the HOTBIRD video hotspot, the operator announced May 22. Operating...

Cameroon-based Songhai Labs and Switzerland-based SatSure have partnered to launch a platform to fuel innovation in African agriculture and agtech markets, the companies announced on April 25. Songhai Labs, a...

Eutelsat Communications has secured a multi-year contract with RCS Ghana to provide capacity for the broadcast of its Direct-to-Home (DTH) bouquet. The African broadcast TV provider plans to use Ku-Band...

Azercosmos has signed an agreement with satellite services company UltiSat to use the Azerspace-1 satellite to provide data services in the Middle East and Europe. Azerspace-1 was launched in 2013...

Spacecom has signed a multi-year contract with Czech Republic-based telecom service provider GiTy for C-band capacity on the AMOS-17 communication satellite in order to deliver connectivity to embassies across Africa,...

CSS, a West African communications services provider and Forsway have announced the next phase of their partnership in Mauritania to deliver affordable broadband in West Africa. The partners have been...

Konnect Africa, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, Schoolap and Flash Services has committed to providing high speed internet to several thousand schools across the Democratic Republic of Congo as part...