Q-KON offers private satellite service

Q-KON’s Secure Private Satellite Network Service gives enterprise and financial customers throughout southern Africa the opportunity to leverage the high availability of satellite access networks with the regional span of terrestrial fibre networks to enable seamless,...

Satellite technology thrives in SA

Innovation and lower costs of deployment, coupled with the need to meet customer demand in areas where terrestrial infrastructure is limited, has fast tracked the growth of satellite broadband, leading to lower costs for South African end-users. This is according to...

Fibre key to African connectivity

Kathy Gibson at SatCom, Sandton – Terrestrial and metro fibre will ultimately be the key solution to letting more consumers access bandwidth. To accomplish this, there are a number of investment models that can be followed – all of them presenting both...

Vodacom signs up satellite communications

Intelsat and Vodacom have announced an agreement under which Intelsat will provide a managed broadband service to Vodacom. The solution will position Vodacom to offer a differentiated broadband service targeting the small office/home office (SOHO) and small/medium...

How to choose a satellite ISP

The advent of truly affordable satellite broadband services has made a big difference to the South African Internet landscape, Jacques Visser, project manager Vox Telecom YahClick. For those in rural areas, who previously battled with slow dialup cellular connections,...