Air France partners with Starlink to upgrade onboard Wi-Fi
The airline's aircraft will be gradually equipped with Starlink connectivity starting from mid-2025.
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The airline's aircraft will be gradually equipped with Starlink connectivity starting from mid-2025.
The expanded agreement will complement Vodafones terrestrial networks by providing enterprises with broadband connectivity in remote and underserved areas.
The internet service launched with monthly subscription fees starting at $50 for the Standard plan and $30 for the Mini option in the personal and residential category.
The agreement aims to enhance connectivity, customer experience and expand commercial offerings for wholesale and enterprise customers in both countries.
Airtel delivers high-speed internet to remote Nigerian regions, empowering communities and closing the digital divide.
The rollout is anticipated to be completed across the continent by December 2024, with services already active in four African countries.
Satellite is sometimes the only way to bring connectivity to hard-to-reach regions that are otherwise difficult and uneconomical to connect.
Under the deal, Telespazio will integrate Starlink into its connectivity network, made up of satellite and terrestrial solutions.
The Twoobii LEO service can provide speeds of 50Mbps with low latency and acts as a redundancy for the branchs fibre connection.
The partnership aims to provide advanced connectivity solutions that are both more efficient and effective, ultimately elevating the customer experience and facilitating their growth and transformation.
In the year 2024, the satellite industry will have a crucial role in facilitating internet access for individuals, communities, and businesses in the MENA region.
These plans come with built in Wi-Fi, professional installation, and business-class support with live agents.
The collaboration stands as a testament to their commitment to fostering connectivity and creating lasting positive change in Africa's digital landscape.
The agreement is to connect hundreds of ships and off-shore vessels worldwide to GEO connectivity services.
The deal will increase connectivity for maritime businesses operating at sea including cargo shipping, passenger ferries, and offshore.
Starlink will be available from Paratus in Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria before being rolled out to more countries.
The deal aims to advance the development of a new optical technology that will transfer record amounts of data between ground and space.
Leveraging SES-17coverage over Mexico, SES won a connectivity tender to provide 4G voice and data services for the first time to 400 remote communities across the country.
The lethal combination of poor infrastructure, political unrest and civil war have compounded operating problems caused by the challenging terrain of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Israel-based VSAT ...
The satellite connectivity will account for more than 80% of the regions revenue opportunities, and the MEA region overall will exceed $150bn in cumulative revenues between 2021 to 2031.
Satellite communications have addressed some of the world's biggest challenges and have transformed the way people can connect with each other.
The partnership with OneWeb will further support Veons 4G for all and humanitarian connectivity focus, bridge the digital divide for millions of users, respond to disasters and unlock economic growth ...
The deal includes a new Internet service to the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut.
The new PoP will enable Batelco's partners to access extensive global interconnection capabilities.
The project will build awareness and lay the foundation for ICT regulators in these countries to incentivise flexible spectrum frameworks.
Eutelsat has signed a number of wholesale and distribution agreements for the satellite in Africa including with TelOne in Zimbabwe, Vodacom Tanzania, and Vox in South Africa.
The partnership aims to bolster the quality of education for students in areas lacking connectivity.
The goal of the agreement is to improve telecommunications infrastructure and services in the African continent.
The expansion aims to enable organisations to accelerate digital transformation throughout Africa.
Intended to serve the Americas, the satellite is designed to accelerate digital inclusion programmes in the region.
The mission is to bridge the digital divide in Egypt and provide connectivity to those in rural and unserved areas.
Solstad Offshore has switched to the Inmarsat Fleet LTE to connect seamlessly using three networks.
Totum's satellite communicated with a terrestrial endpoint located in a San Diego office building, demonstrating a miniature omnidirectional antenna.
The 2Africa PEARLS branch will serve an even wider range of communities that rely on the internet for services from education to healthcare and businesses.
Egypt has invested $2bn to increase internet speed in cities by 700%.
The collaboration will see gigabit connectivity provided to 530,000 homes across Ukraine.
The companies will provide IoT satellite services for partners and prospects in fleet management, fisheries, asset management and aggrotech among others.
The new hubs will enable Vodacom to migrate its VSAT-based 2G network to 3G across 150 base transceiver station sites, with the base station controller located in Kinshasa.
Orange Jordan and Nokia have signed a deal in 2017 to deploy GPON fibre throughout the kingdom.
The agreement was signed through Marlinks local partner Ozsay Satellite to support Manta Shippings drive towards digitalised shipping operations and increased connectivity for the crew.
STC will include its extensive international submarine cable network for this initiative, which already offers the highest availability to Europe from the GCC today.
OneGate Marine Compact provides the solution to optimise L-band capacity bringing VSAT-like experience over mobile satellite services (MSS) terminal.
The satellite service would essentially be offered to the whole of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.
Connectivity and communications have become critical in todays world not just for businesses and individuals but also for the aid industry, telemedicine and other such sectors.
The financing will be used to accelerate new product development and commercialisation for satellite and cellular communications globally.
Thurayas technology partner and integrator will distribute its products and services to key government, maritime and IoT/M2M customers in the United States.
The HawkEye 5500, reportedly the first of its kind, is a dual-mode vehicle tracking system that fully integrates with on-board vehicle systems.
The move is in line with the efforts of several African governments to combat Covid-19 by allowing access to care for a large number of people.
The ST100 is the newest addition to the Globalstar commercial IoT embedded solutions product line, joining the STX3 and STINGR satellite transmitters.
Dubbed as 2Africa, the 37,000km-long-cable around the continent is expected to bring better connectivity to 1.3bn Africans.
The launch dates and vehicles have not yet been decided.
The ECX fabric expansion in seven new EMEA markets will aim to provide global interconnection opportunities for digital businesses on Equinix.
The terminals are now fully operational on the Inmarsat network with commercial shipments of each beginning immediately.
With video transmission and encryption systems pre-integrated into its SDU (satellite data unit), the Thuraya solution makes airborne-communications more secure.
The partnership will enable Yahsat to offer free satellite broadband services for remote schooling in areas within the UAE that lacking internet connectivity.
The new solution is powered by Thuraya IP+ for stationed use and Thuraya Voyager for vehicular use over its L-band network.
The agreement will enable SatADSL to combine the capacity purchased from YahClick with its cloud-based service delivery platform for flexible satellite services across Africa.
Distributors Sada Al Ammah and Global Beam Telecom will work closely with Inmarsats maritime, aviation and enterprise businesses to roll-out the services in the region.
The current financial officer of Aperam SA will assume his new role at SES from May 2020.
Under EMSA and SES Networks framework agreement, the EFCA experiences connectivity between moving platforms at sea, in the air and on land, for real-time information on fishery activities.
