Satellite internet for Africa
Satellite dish pointing: West Africa
Satellite dish pointing South Africa
Dish pointing in Sudan and Ethiopia
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| Internet via satellite, email and VoIP access connection via direct two-way customer dish terminals have been possible for over 10 years years in Africa following a maturing of VSAT technology and the building of large teleport hub dishes for service into Africa. | Fast web downloads, email, ftp file transfers and streaming video and audio are achieved with speeds of typically up to one or more Mbit/s, using a share of a high bandwidth connection from a large hub station with a rate of up to 36 Msym/s (like digital sat TV DVB-S or -S2 signal). | African satellite internet capacity is normally shared. Services for home and small office users have higher sharing ratios, but are lower cost than services for business or internet café users where dedicated or low ratio sharing is the rule. | Service providers have tariff options for various bit rates and Mbytes transferred. Email and internet web browsing are the usual intended use. For applications requiring substantial uploading of data or for real time two way video or VoIP ask about higher price options and feasibility. |
Satellite connection is available via the beam maps and service providers shown below. Scroll all the way down this page to find all suitable providers. Ask for initial equipment price plus monthly costs for different peak bit rates and total amounts of Mbytes downloaded. C band refers to 4 - 6 GHz operation. Ku refers to 11-12 - 14 GHz operation. C band needs generally a larger dish, but suffers less from heavy rain. For some densely populated places along the North Africa coast there is Ka band coverage using the European Tooway service, see: European Tooway satellite service
| Read my text summary for each provider. Click on emails where your location matches the coverage maps. Explain your requirements and ask for current prices and confirm technical details. Alternatively, you may click here to Email all service providers on this page |
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| BusinessCom | Internet via
Satellite services for all Africa region.
For SOHO, Enterprise, Internet Cafe and Calling Centers, Wireless ISP and Hot Spots, VoIP Termination Carriers and more. No FAP, no throttling, no hidden fees, smart bandwidth management, dedicated technical support and personalized service - this is what BusinessCom services are. Features include: . iDirect, LinkStar, DVB-S2,
SCPC and FR platforms - shared and
dedicated links of any possible configuration BusinessCom are primarily using the NewSkies satellite, NSS-12, for Africa nowadays, and are ffering a full gamut of dedicated DVB-S2, iDirect and SCPC services. C band offers the most reliable service during rain, Contact: vsat-satsigs@bcsatellite.net to inquire for more information and prices... |
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Bentley Walker : Hughes HX50 and iDirect services
Telstar 11N ( 37.5 deg west ): Hughes HX50 and iDirect Evolution X3 technologies. Eutelsat W3A ( 7 deg east ): Hughes HX50 and iDirect Evolution X3 technologies. Eutelsat W2A ( 10 deg east ): C band : iDirect Evolution X3 technology. Further C band services are planned on AMOS 5, when launched. |
 Hughes HX50 and iDirect Evolution X3 service on Telstar 11N at 37.5 west. |
 Hughes HX50 and iDirect Evolution X3 service on Eutelsat W3A at 7 east. |
 iDirect Evolution X3 service in C band throughout Africa on Eutelsat W2A. |
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Various grades of service plus special quality of service controls and advanced proprietary TCP/IP compression to give faster downloads compared with unprocessed feeds, plus customer access to traffic monitoring system. Click here to email: sales@bentleywalker.com or phone now 00 44 2392 311 103 (ref:satsig) |
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| WAFA - Your gateway to high speed internet. WAFA offer high speed VSAT satellite internet access services on
both Telstar 11N (at 37.5 west) and Eutelsat W3A at 7 west,
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Service: SkyOne-IP over West Africa (IS-1r). Regular Internet service, Ipsky2e over the Central and South of Africa (IS-10). Fixed usage: Private users, Soho/Sme Corporate, UN, NGOs, ISP's...
Bandwidth available in shared access (5:1)
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 GlobalTT.com operate their own teleport with 155Mbps and 34Mbps backbone connectivity. Coverage examples: [ IS-1R ] Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Guinéa, Gambia, Mauritania. Read about their Satnet-IP service for DRC and Africa |
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American service for Business, Enterprise, NGO's, educational or Government use to all of Africa. Providing high speed internet (9.0 meg downlink, 4.2 meg uplink) quality VoIP, video, distant learning and multi-casting capabilities. Two way broadband internet via satellite by direct access connection to/from New York. Shared or dedicated C band service. TDMA or SCPC. You may extend your network up to 12 km radius by using our next generation Wi-Fi equipment (protocol 802.11) or 40 km using WiMax (802.16)
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| New Era Systems - Africa
service New Era Systems operate direct from their own International Teleport, located in Miami, Florida. The Teleport provides connection for C-Band Africa coverage on PAS1R, Intelsat 707 and 907. All make use of cross strapped transponders so that the hub operates in the N. America beam while your VSAT dish operates in the Africa coverage beam. Installations requiring high volume connections of >1MB will find cost savings by installing the larger 3.8m or 4.5m antennas. Although these antennas cost more to purchase and ship, there will be savings on the re-occurring monthly bandwidth cost that will compensate for the higher initial cost.
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Global Broadband Solution GBS specialise in the design and the supply of integrated solutions in the satellite and wireless telecommunication field. They provide turn-key and tailor-made solutions for projects of any size. They use BT's Teleport facility at Martlesham, UK, to host their own VSAT iDirect hub and equipments providing internet services to Africa. They are also in partnership with Intelsat and Satlynx and their technical staff to install C-Band services everywhere in Africa. ViperSat is another partner, offering a technologically advanced infrastructure products, providing bandwidth-efficient and scalable solutions. For urban concentrations, GBS are installing WiMAX wireless infrastructure for internet and intranet access. GBS operate with Alvarion wireless products using the 3.5 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency bands. To provide African customers with reliable international telecommunications at a very low cost, GBS has developed a VoIP platform providing quality international phone calls in regions where remote Internet access sites will have been set up. They have a dynamic, motivated team working using the most modern management and file follow-up methods. They take a pride in personal contact with customers. For more information email: satellite@gb-solution.com
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C band and Ku band beam coverages includes Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Gabon, Congo RDC, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ethiopia, Madagascar and South Africa.
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IsoTropic Networks IsoTropic Networks have their own teleport hub in Wisconsin, USA, and offer a full range of services with the 3000, 5000, 7000 and 8000 series of iDirect customer routers, to suit all requirements: large or small business, community ISP, internet cafe, oil and gas, multi-nationals, governmental, banks and private users.
For more details email them at sales@isosat.net. |
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Afrikanet - Oxford Consultech This company provides VSAT internet connection by satellite from Europe, wherever you are in Africa using 1.2m, 1.8m or 2.4m diameter dishes. Availability is in both C-Band and Ku band C-Band: iDirect Infinity Series 3100 or 5100 modems or iDirect Evolution X3 on the Intelsat IS-903 or the SES WORLDSKIES NSS-12. Comtech SCPC, suitable for business, is available on C band. Ku band: iDirect Infinity Series 3100 or iDirect Evolution X3 DVB-S2 modems on the TELSTAR T-11N. For more details, including current prices, please email: sales@afrikanet.net
United Kingdom: Oxford
Tel: 00 44 1865 408 365 Fax: 00 44 207 900 6479 |
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Link-Sat Broadband satellite internet West
Africa. High power West Africa Ku band beam from Newskies satellite NSS-7 at orbit 21.5W and Africa C band beam from Intelsat 905 at 24.5W. Two
way dedicated business satellite internet with
direct access connection to the USA. Please remember
this is all dedicated service - you are not sharing the satellite with other
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SMS "UK Gateway to Africa" Teleport
The SMS Gateway to Africa Teleport, located in Europe at Rugby, UK, offers service and infrastructure facilities for VNOs, SCPC, IP connectivity, streaming, voice, video and data. The teleport supports hub services for major platforms from STMi, iDirect, Newtec and Tandberg. Fully staffed 24/7, with a wealth of engineering and communications expertise, the greatly expanded SMS teleport provides comprehensive solutions for all of your infrastructure needs to Africa and the Middle East: ground segment, internet connectivity, including direct Tier 1 backbone link, RF and space segment. |
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CET Teleport : European access to Africa The CET Teleport in Germany delivers VSAT and media broadcast services.
Extensive disaster recovery facilities, a 24/7
Help Desk and over 50 antennas ranging Links to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caribbean and South America. SCPC and contended VSAT services through the iDirect Evolution® and iNFINITI® platforms to support enterprise, government, military, oil & gas, mining, banking, NGO and many others. Web site Web: www.cetteleport.com E-mail: info@cetteleport.com |
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Coverages on this page includes all Africa with a combination of C and Ku band beams. For dish pointing go here: Satellite dish pointing in west Africa
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The setting up and control of two-way satellite internet, with interactive return channel system ( RCS ) is controlled from the provider's hub so any problem sites can be switched off remotely until a technician attends. Also, the satellite internet connection equipment design and frequency bands comply to international regulatory "type approval" for general use, so that operation does not cause unacceptable interference to other services or continue to require individual satellite internet licence. Non-approved terminals continue to require individual licence.
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