{"id":58160,"date":"2021-02-01T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-signs-multi-year-konnect-service-contract-with-zimbabwes-telone\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:54:51","slug":"eutelsat-signs-multi-year-konnect-service-contract-with-zimbabwes-telone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-signs-multi-year-konnect-service-contract-with-zimbabwes-telone\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Signs Multi-Year KONNECT Service Contract with Zimbabwe\u2019s TelOne"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Global satellite operator <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> has won a multi-year contract to deliver Ka-band satellite broadband services to Zimbabwe\u2019s state-owned internet service provider, <strong>TelOne (Pvt) Limited<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in March, Eutelsat broadband division Konnect Africa will deliver satellite services from the Eutelsat\u2019s new KONNECT High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) to TelOne\u2019s household and business customers located in remote and rural locations across Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy securing this premium capacity and service we will be able to pursue our mission of offering fast, reliable broadband services at an affordable price to homes, businesses, educational institutions and government departments all over Zimbabwe,\u201d TelOne managing director Chipo Mtasa said in a statement. \u201cWe are passionate about making long lasting and meaningful connections through our services, and this will now become a reality for customers in even the remotest regions, in line with in our vision for a digitally enabled society by 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the service contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Eutelsat KONNECT satellite brings 75 Gbps of Ka-band capacity via 65 spotbeams to an area extending from Europe to Sub-Saharan Africa. The operator began commercial roll out of the KONNECT broadband service in November and just recently secured&nbsp;an agreement with distribution partner&nbsp;<b>InterSat<\/b> to connect a network of 170 post offices throughout C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. Eutelsat also has KONNECT capacity contracts in France and Italy with <strong>Orange<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Telecom Italia<\/strong>, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global satellite operator Eutelsat has won a multi-year contract to deliver Ka-band satellite broadband services to Zimbabwe\u2019s state-owned internet service provider, TelOne (Pvt) Limited. Starting in March, Eutelsat broadband division Konnect Africa will deliver satellite services from the Eutelsat\u2019s new KONNECT High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) to TelOne\u2019s household and business customers located in remote and rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56377,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58160"}],"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=58160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}