Satellite Internet Forum

Econet Satellite Services provides VOIP, GSM backhaul, IP transit and broadband services to Africa. Additional services include teleport, space segment sub-lease, collocation and project management, currently with many presence in Nigeria, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Somalia and soon in Kenya, Papua New Guinea.

ESS has experience in providing GSM and PSTN backhauls including SS7 over IP, broadband services on Atlantic Bird 3, 5 degrees West. Currently we lease 144 MHz Circular C-Band and provide end-to-end solutions to ...

Does anyone know of free or very low cost inclined orbit transponders available for Africa?
Need prices, PFDsat, G/T, EIRP and possible transponder gain settings.  Best regards, Alex.

We are considering Bentleywalker / Qkon service on PAS1R. We need to hear about your experience with the service in terms of activation time and customer services before subscribing to the service.
Many thanks
Chris Goodie

From: ITAFRICA - ITALIAN AFRICAN ALLIANCE srl  - info@itafrica.it

Our company is interested in using low cost satellite connections in rural villages in the poor countries, all over the world (Africa, India, etc.). As you surely understand, because these 3 billion people located in more than 1 million villages don't have telephony, it is a potentially ENORMOUS market for satellites.

We are not technical guys: but we know well what ...

My appologies if this topic has been discussed before, I am new here. I am also a novice in this area but am looking for a business opportunity if at all its feasible.

How feasible is it to have a countrywide Satellite Internet Service in a country like Mozambique? I am looking at a situation with a simple structure like that of Satellite TV were a user has a PC connected to broadband modem connected ...

A number of VSAT engineers in Africa have formed a "Consortium of VSAT Engineers", currently with contacts in Botswana, Zimabawe, Mozambique and Zambia. They are inviting engineers in the SADC region who are interested to be part of consortium. Contact them and they will exam you and check that you are qualified according to their standards.

The contact person for hub and other network operators is: Nobert e-mail; ngudo@it.bw cell; ...

Nearly all of Africa’s international bandwidth is provided by satellite. Except for those countries which are connected to and utilising submarine fibre-optic cables (Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Canary Islands and Cape Verde), satellite presents the only means of carrying international other than terrestrial or microwave links they might have with neighbours. As a result, African countries have a very high dependency on satellite, with the majority of countries more than 95% ...

I would like to inform that for any VSAT communication, Site survey, Install, commissioning and support for Ethiopia and the region and beyond, you can contact me through the following addresses below.I am fully equipped and I was representing MCI (US telecom) for 5 years for Eastern Africa region. I have done more than 30 VSATs install for the World bank, Standard Chartered bank, COMESA, EU in whole of Africa.

Contacts: Engineer Bruk Getachew
Email:bruk.getachew@yahoo.com ...

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