{"id":67923,"date":"2017-06-23T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-signs-first-customers-for-konnect-africa-broadband-service\/"},"modified":"2017-06-23T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:59:38","slug":"eutelsat-signs-first-customers-for-konnect-africa-broadband-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-signs-first-customers-for-konnect-africa-broadband-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Signs First Customers for Konnect Africa Broadband Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Konnect Africa<\/strong> broadband venture set up by <strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> has officially launched new-generation services this month, starting in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. Konnect Africa\u2019s service offerings and products include packaged offers inspired by \u201cpay-as-you-go\u201d models and Wi-Fi hotspot schemes.<\/p>\n<p>First partners include local operators, telecom companies and resellers, notably <strong>AfrikaNet GoSat<\/strong> (Cameroon, Cote d\u2019Ivoire), <strong>Bentley Walker<\/strong> (multiple African markets), <strong>Bloosat<\/strong> (Cameroon, Central Africa), <strong>Coollink<\/strong> (Nigeria), <strong>Global Broadband Solution<\/strong> (Democratic Republic of Congo), <strong>Terrace Projects<\/strong> (South Africa), <strong>Ubora Systems<\/strong> (Kenya), as well as <strong>China Telecom<\/strong> that is establishing communications links between the African continent and the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Konnect Africa is initially using capacity on <strong>Yahsat\u2019s<\/strong> Al Yah 2 satellite, which carries 16 Ka-band spotbeams, with expansion supported by a further 18 spotbeams on the Al Yah 3 satellite scheduled for launch by the end of 2017. Konnect Africa aims to cover most of Sub-Saharan Africa by 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Konnect Africa broadband venture set up by Eutelsat Communications has officially launched new-generation services this month, starting in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. Konnect Africa\u2019s service offerings and products include packaged offers inspired by \u201cpay-as-you-go\u201d models and Wi-Fi hotspot schemes. First partners include local operators, telecom companies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67925,"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-67923","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\/67923"}],"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=67923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}