Avanti, iWayAfrica deal taps satellite broadband stakes

iWayAfrica, a pan-African telecoms service provider says it is spreading its wings to provide satellite broadband services across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This followed a pact with Avanti Communications Group, a leading satellite operator and provider of satellite data communications services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Avanti has signed a HYLAS 4 Master Distributor contract with iWayAfrica that enables the latter to deliver service through the Ka-band satellite technology of Avanti’s HYLAS 4 satellite, which cover 100% of Sub-Saharan Africa, the companies said in a statement made available to Technology Times.

With this deal, iWayAfrica says it will provide affordable high-speed satellite broadband to connect homes, SMEs, schools and enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural and remote locations where terrestrial networks are limited.

With this deal, iWayAfrica says it will provide affordable high-speed satellite broadband to connect homes, SMEs, schools and enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural and remote locations where terrestrial networks are limited.

HYLAS 4, which launched in April 2018, will extend iWayAfrica’s Ka-band offering into new countries across West and Central Africa with commercial service scheduled from August 2018.  

“With HYLAS 4, we are excited to take Avanti’s high-speed service plans to West and Central Africa for the first time. This is a natural extension of our existing relationship and we are actively engaged with our partner network to bring these services online, as well as extending our reach in the region even further to new partners and new territories”, Mathew Welthagen, Group CEO of Gondwana International Networks, the parent company of iWayAfrica, says.