{"id":18063,"date":"2019-05-08T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kymeta-will-widen-the-reach-of-its-satellite-connectivity-service-with-turksat-alliance\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:24:35","slug":"kymeta-will-widen-the-reach-of-its-satellite-connectivity-service-with-turksat-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kymeta-will-widen-the-reach-of-its-satellite-connectivity-service-with-turksat-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kymeta will widen the reach of its satellite connectivity service with T\u00fcrksat alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_497233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497233\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-497233\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190508-turksat-630x373.jpg\" alt=\"Turksat 4B satellite\" width=\"630\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190508-turksat-630x373.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190508-turksat.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-497233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows the Turksat 4B satellite in orbit. (Turksat Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based satellite antenna venture that\u2019s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it has struck up a partnership with Turkey\u2019s T\u00fcrksat telecommunications service to expand satellite data connectivity across a wide swath of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement came here at the Satellite 2019 conference.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement will provide T\u00fcrksat\u2019s customers with new satellite links for voice, data, internet, TV and radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with T\u00fcrksat allows Kymeta to provide coverage through their satellite communications with our end-to-end solutions on both land and sea,\u201d Neville Meijers, Kymeta\u2019s chief commercial officer, said in a news release. \u201cWe are excited about the possibilities this partnership opens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hasan H\u00fcseyin Ertok, T\u00fcrksat\u2019s vice president, was similarly upbeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership will help further our mission of bringing different languages and cultures together through satellite communications,\u201d Ertok said. \u201cKymeta\u2019s proven antenna technology will allow us to pursue previously untapped markets and applications in satellite communications. As the only satellite operator in Turkey, this is critical to enhancing the service offerings in our nation and beyond.\u201d<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kymeta was spun out from Intellectual Ventures as a standalone startup in 2012 with financial support from Gates and other investors, to take advantage of solid-state technologies related to metamaterials. Kymeta\u2019s flat-panel satellite antennas are \u201csteered\u201d electronically, with no moving parts.<\/p>\n<p>The antennas are well-suited to maritime and mobile applications \u2014 ranging from yacht communications systems to connected cars to bus and rail systems in remote areas. In league with Intelsat, Kymeta offers a hybrid satellite-cellular connectivity service known as K\u0100LO.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrksat joins a long list of Kymeta partners that includes Intelsat and Microsoft as well as Toyota, Airbus, Panasonic, Inmarsat and Honeywell. Kymeta has reported raising roughly $200 million in investments, including $73.5 million in funding during a round in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows the Turksat 4B satellite in orbit. (Turksat Illustration) WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based satellite antenna venture that\u2019s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it has struck up a partnership with Turkey\u2019s T\u00fcrksat telecommunications service to expand satellite data connectivity across a wide swath of Europe, the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4591,354,4726,20,4590,442,3925],"class_list":["post-18063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antennas","tag-kymeta","tag-metamaterials","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-conference","tag-satellites","tag-turksat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}