{"id":87835,"date":"2009-12-02T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kvh-buys-telstar-11n-capacity-for-mobile-broadband-service-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:47:05","slug":"kvh-buys-telstar-11n-capacity-for-mobile-broadband-service-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kvh-buys-telstar-11n-capacity-for-mobile-broadband-service-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"KVH Buys Telstar 11N Capacity for Mobile Broadband Service in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-02-09] <strong>KVH Industries<\/strong> signed a multi-year agreement with Telesat to utilize the African coverage of Telstar 11N satellite, <strong>Telesat<\/strong> announced Dec. 1.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Telstar 11N\u2019s Ku-band capacity over Africa will support KVH\u2019s mini-VSAT broadband service for commercial and leisure boaters. KVH is in a joint effort with <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> to offer broadband network services for vessels, aircraft, and other mobile markets on a global basis. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe West African region, with its offshore oil and gas fields, has long been an important part of KVH\u2019s plans for expanding our mini-VSAT Broadband network. However, KVH could not launch a service that met our quality standards until Telstar 11N became available. Now with Telstar 11N\u2019s African beam, KVH has live coverage, or is under contract to provide such coverage, to virtually every major maritime region on the globe,\u201d KVH Vice President of Sales Brent Bruun said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-02-09] KVH Industries signed a multi-year agreement with Telesat to utilize the African coverage of Telstar 11N satellite, Telesat announced Dec. 1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Telstar 11N\u2019s Ku-band capacity over Africa will support KVH\u2019s mini-VSAT broadband service for commercial and leisure boaters. KVH is in a joint effort with ViaSat to offer broadband network services for vessels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87835"}],"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=87835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88007,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87835\/revisions\/88007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}