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Africa high speed broadband internet via satellite access systems using two-way dish

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Internet via satellite and email access connection via direct two-way customer dish terminals is now possible in Africa following a maturing of the technology and building of 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 several hundred kbit/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 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 service bit rates. 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 Gbytes 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. 

Read my text summary for each provider.  Click on emails where your location matches the coverage maps. Ask for current prices and confirm technical details. Alternatively, you may click here to Email all service providers on this page

Africa coverage maps below
VSAT companies serving Africa

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.  

Cyber Cafes, ISP’s, telephone companies and corporate offices all use VSAT communication for more efficient operation and increased profit. The equipment division of New Era will sell and install a VSAT system exactly designed for a client’s needs.
Click now: sales@newerasystems.net

C band broadband dish: 2.4m diameter
2.4m C band terminal

For more details click on map
New Era Systems Africa details
PanAmSat 1R at 45 west is also available and provides good coverage of North West Africa.

Link-Sat  Broadband satellite internet West Africa.
High power Ku beam from Newskies satellite NSS-7 at orbit 338.5E.  Two way dedicated business satellite internet
with direct access connection to the USA.
Includes option: VoIP telephone service.
Downlink: up to 60 Mbit/s download speed.    Uplink: up to 4 Mbit/s.
Entry level is just 96kbit/s download and 32kbit/s uplink. Please remember this is all dedicated service - you are not sharing the satellite with other terminal users.
Contact  info@link-sat.net       

Africa countries covered: (some partially): Senegal, The Gambia, Gambie, Guinea, Guinee, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina-Faso (Upper Volta), Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Tchad, Cameroon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic (CAR). Occidentale Ouest Afrique.   All via a ViaSat LinkStar VSAT teleport hub in the USA.

NSS7 for West Africa

BusinessCom | Internet via Satellite services for the 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
Ready to support business-class VoIP and Videoconferencing, VPN (IPSec), Mesh topology and more..
Individual QoS setup per each VSAT system to make sure your own applications traffic are prioritized
SLA with 98.2%+ annual network uptime guaranteed and more
• Immediate Spare Parts Replacement Warranty option, in-country Installation and Maintenance options
• Ability to connect with your own equipment, flexible migration deals, APO delivery.

Contact:  vsat-satsigs@bcsatellite.net to inquire for more information and prices...

Click to go to BusinessCom web site
Regions and Countries covered (but not limited to):  All Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Somalia, Libya, Ethiopia, SAR.
 

MM Telcom Corp.

American service for Business, Enterprise, NGO's, educational or Government use to all of Africa. Providing high speed internet (9 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. Ku or C band equipment, shared or dedicated bandwidth service.    You may extend your network up to 12 km radius by using our next generation Wi-Fi equipment (protocol 802.16)

Entry level Ku equipment is only 2,669 euro. 24/7 tech support engineers in Germany and USA.
Read what our customers think about us: References

One week VSAT training courses for installers at our New York office in even months (Feb, Apr, June etc)

For further details > info@mmtelcom.com
Ku spot beam (1.2m dish) coverage all the way from Guinea to Congo. Mali, Sierra Leone, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and more...

All Africa zone - C band (1.8m dish)

All Africa zone beam
C band

1.8m dish

West Africa spot Ku band (1.2m dish)

West Africa spot beam
 Ku band

1.2m dish

Globaltt.com logo
Operations in Ku-band

Globaltt.com teleport antennas


GlobalTT.com Teleport

Customer VSAT dishes are typically 1.2m diameter with up to 61 PCs connected.

Globaltt.com is an operator with their own ground station in Brussels - Belgium

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)
• 2Mbps max Receive and 128kbps max transmit with a small 1.2m parabolic antenna.
• Many different type of subscription from a Quota to Shared to Unlimited.
• Leased line or dedicated line also available.

 Voip

 Vpn-Ipsec

 Mesh or intercom

 Public static IP

 Vehicle

 Maritime

 Transportable

 All-in-a-Box appliance
 (mail, FW, DNS..server)

Globaltt.com Africa Ku band beam coverages: Intelsat 10 (68.5 deg east longitude) and Intelsat 1R (315 deg east longitude)


GlobalTT.com operate his own teleport with 155Mbps and 34Mbps backbone connectivity.

Coverage examples:
[ IS-10 ] DRC, Congo, South Africa, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Africa.

[ IS-1R ] Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Guinéa, Gambia, Mauritania.

Globaltt.com telephone and telecommunications logo
Operations in C-band

Globaltt.com hub teleport dishes


GlobalTT.com Teleport

Customer VSAT dishes are typically 2.4m diameter.
 

Globaltt.com is a leading provider with Teleport ground station in Brussels - Belgium

Service: SkyOne-IP and SkyOne-Pro over All Middle-East, north Africa, Central Europe and central Asia but also Caribbean  Fixed usage:  Private users, Soho/Sme Corporate, UN, NGOs, ISP's...

• 4.5Mbps max Receive and 256kbps max transmit with a small 2.4m parabolic antenna.
• Many different type of subscription from a Quota to Shared to Unlimited.

Leased line or dedicated line also available.
• Different type of lease line: fully dedicated, bandwidth on demand (BoD) or slow trigger BoD.

 Voip

 Vpn-Ipsec

 Mesh or intercom

 Public static IP

 Vehicle

 Maritime

 Transportable

 All-in-a-Box appliance
 (mail, FW, DNS..server)

Globaltt.com Eutelsat AB-3 C-band beam coverage pattern from 5 west longitude.

GT&T have their own teleport with 155Mbps and 34Mbps backbone connectivity.

Coverage examples: Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana, Venezuela.
 

Bentley Telecom Eutelsat W3A

Eutelsat W3A ( 7 deg east) broadband internet via satellite coverage using Hughes HX and LinkStar DVB-S2 and iDirect technologies.   Hughes HX, introduced in March 2008, represents a significant step forwards.

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 44 239 246 3943 (ref:satsig)

Also iDirect STAR COM service in North East Africa

Eutelsat W3A Africa
Mid Africa and South Africa coverage
Direct connection provider.

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


BT hub for Ku service


VSAT dish

Wireless access

VoIP server

Wireless


C-band partners

All Africa coverage: C band zone in the North East and North West, C band hemi in the middle and C band zone in Southern Africa

Ku band coverage of southern Africa

 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.


Vipersat/Comtech modems


iDirect VSAT system

LinkStar StarPRO service from Bentley Walker

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.

LinkStar equipment.       Also iDirect STAR COM service in North East Africa

Email your enquiry to sales@bentleywalker.com

Frequency

PAS1R Africa beam coverage
See here for detail map of dish sizes for West Africa

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

Have your say now.. Contribute now in my Africa satellite broadband and internet forum   Help others with advice. Tell others about your own problems, successes, failures, also vsat wants and for sale etc. 

Regarding this page, if you have comments about satellite internet service providers or service on this page, please e-mail me, Eric Johnston or use the forum. Apologies to any Africa satellite internet providers for mistakes, missing countries etc - please tell me.

The setting up and control of direct 2 way broadband interactive ( BBI ) return channel system ( RCS ) satellite internet terminals ( SIT ) is controlled from the providers so any problem sites can be switched off remotely until a technician attends. Also, the internet via satellite connection equipment design and frequency bands comply to international regulatory "type approval" for general use. So that operation does not cause interference to other services or continue to require individual satellite internet licence. Non-approved terminals will continue to require individual licence.

AfriConnect
Tanzania
Ghana
Zambia
AfrikaNet iDirect and LinkStar Blue Sky - South Africa services Constellation C band satellite networks in Africa Digital Indaba South Africa        
  IAL office: satellite internet in Kenya iDirect and ECC DVB-S2 from Logical Wireless ZA New April 2008
iDirect Africa from Geolink
Ipwireless-Cameroun looking for partnership with VSAT Providers Intercel group DRC Congo, Guinea, Guinée, Madagascar Installing iDirect VSAT in Darfur, Sudan, Africa Linkserve LinkStar service for West Africa
Level 412 satellite communications in Africa MWEB VSAT and value added services for Africa Skyway.net
C band inclined orbit
Rutel Telecentres in Africa (draft) Extending the reach of VSAT with IEEE 802-11 wireless from smartBridges Thuraya satellite internet service in W3A Africa beam South Africa Wireless and Sat Internet consultant VSAT installer and iDirect hub engineer Egypt WISP and VSAT service in Liberia

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Portable laptop sized RBGAN and R-BGAN hand carry terminals suggested for reporters and travelling business users in Africa north of equator.

Archive and older links:

WAFSAT conference and VSAT training Abuja, Nigeria, 23-26 Nov 2005 ACT 2005
African Computing & Telecommunications. Johannesburg, 4-7 October 2005

Durban Communication Networks, Abuja, Nigeria, Africa

QKON
South Africa based satellite ISP

VSAT training courses in Africa
17-19 March 2008 Kenya.

SatWiBB East Africa conference and the African VoIP Forum 31 May and 8-12 June Nairobi

Wireless broadband training
21-22 July 2005, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Satcom Africa conference 14-18 Feb 2005

Satcom Africa conference 20-24 Feb 2006

IDLELO 2, African Conference Digital Communications Nairobi, Kenya, 23- 25 Feb 2006 Africa satellite review Nov 2004 GISPA AFRISPA

WiMax CDMA Forum 24-26 Apl 2006 South Africa

Satellite Phones Thuraya, R-BGAN, Mini M
SpiderSat

Patriot to start dish manufacturing in Nigeria

AfriTel

3rd Africa VoIP forum in Lagos between 21-23 August 2006

24 - 26 August 2005  GVF VSAT Installation & Maintenance Training Course in Nairobi, Kenya

Secure satcoms for Africa military

Useful links: Dish pointing in Southern Africa   Satellite dish pointing in West Africa