LUXEMBOURG - SES and Intersat have signed a multi-year agreement to deliver internet services across Africa. Intersat, one of the largest providers of internet solutions on the African continent, will be providing broadband connectivity to businesses and consumers via SES’s NSS-12 satellite, located at 57 degrees East.
The latest agreement with SES includes a new C-band capacity lease, infrastructure services out of the SES Betzdorf teleport and a renewal of upgraded Ku-band capacity out of the SES Djibouti Teleport. Intersat will also use the SES Enterprise+ Broadband service to deliver high-speed broadband connectivity across Africa, serving industries such as banking, corporate customers, and internet service providers.
Launched in 2015, SES’s Enterprise+ is a managed, ready-to-deploy, customized satellite connectivity solution providing carrier grade services and allowing a wide range of applications including connectivity for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP) services, remote data traffic and video multi-casting.
Satellite is an effective way of delivering broadband services to low density regions since those areas do not have high enough population density to make a profit on investment in terrestrial infrastructure. Africa offers a particularly interesting market for satellite operators. Demand for broadband services is growing rapidly, but terrestrial networks have not kept pace, especially in interior regions of the continent. Satellite operators will continue to find business in Africa for the foreseeable future.
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