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5G: Operators plan off-grid solar powered VSAT solutions VVVolVolVolVol o6 o6 66l l. .No. NoNo. No77 N N 55 oo5.. 816 July 2018 2019 AFRICA SPECIAL REPORT ByHow Marcel Dischinger petroleum companies are using satellite services C O N T E N T S Vol. 7 No. 16 The triumph of market policy Editor in-chief Aliyu Bello Finally, NCC grants Avanti Communications landing right permit Executive Manager Tonia Gerrald Satellite operators to generate $13.7 billion in data revenues by SA to the editor in-Chief Ngozi Okey 2028, says NSR Head, Application Services M. Yakubu ABS, INTERSAT host customers to a seminar on empowering Editorial/ICT Services John Daniel satellites in Africa Usman Bello Pay-TV Versus OTT- It's not yet 'play' time Alozie Nwankwo Hispasat's renouned female scientists and professionals Juliet Nnamdi engaged 50 girls on space technology Client Relations Sunday Tache Eutelsat announces successful 8-year bond issuance Lookman Bello Safiya Thani NSR reports smallsat dedicated launch vehicles Marketing Offy Pat to generate $2.2B by 2028 Tunde Nathaniel NCC officially ends CDMA in Nigeria Wasiu Olatunde 5G: Operators plan off-grid solar powered VSAT solutions Media Relations Favour Madu How petroleum companies are using satellite services Khadijat Yakubu Zacheous Felicia South Africa: Going Digital and Doing it quickly Finance Folarin Tunde Space Watch Magazine is a publication of Communication Science, Inc. All correspondence should be addressed to editor, space Watch Magazine. 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In 2007, at the stakeholders' Space Agency (ESA), in the amount of 34 help improve national transit traffic, hosting conference and exhibition on the million EUR, with the total cost of the a Point of Presence in the Maindata facility. NIGCOMSAT 1R launch organized by the project estimated at 120 million EUR. Its For Main One, there is bandwidth capacity m a n a g e m e n t o f t h e N i g e r i a n first satellite, named Hylas-1 was and glut in Lagos. Main one Cable has 4 Communications Satellite Limited in launched successfully on 26 November terabits of capacity, but coming from where Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, the 2010 and became operational in March the country used to be at 120 gigabits from then Executive Vice Chairman of the 2011, with all of the subscribers on IS-903 SAT-3. Nigerian Communications Commission, switched over to the new satellite. Well, there is bandwidth capacity NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah stated that there somewhere around Apapa, in Lagos, will be no room for monopoly in the For Avanti Communications, the future is South West Nigeria, but the end users are satellite industry as operators wherever forever bright, The company represents not getting value for it because of they are, whenever they are located will Europe’s first Ka band satellite operator connectivity challenges. be allowed to offer cross border services with oneof the highest fill ratio in the world over Nigeria's landscape. in terms of transponder utilisation. According to Main One, the company do not have last mile infrastructure, this could According to him, since a satellite However, in Africa, stiff market conditions be satellites, could be wireless technology launched in Moscow is capable of offering combined with a highly fragmented base stations or could be optic fiber services to Brazil in South America or any market have resulted in the poorest fill deployed by the mobile operators already parts of the world where the satellite has ratio in the world with an average 53 per in business. The reality is that even in footprint, NIGCOMSAT 1R being the only cent, below Middle East and Latin Lagos, where bandwidth are supposedly Nigerian or African telecommunications America. adequate, people still don't have bandwidth satellite will not be shielded from access as they ordinarily should. Prices of competitors from other parts of the world. A survey to evaluate the minimum international capacity is lower, N250 per Stating further, Dr. Juwah observed that transponder prices that the various types MEG, people don't buy less than N1000 or NIGCOMSAT Limited will have to face of operators can offer without putting their N1200 as end users in Nigeria. The reality other competitors who may even possess business at risk, ie assuming an EBIT is that prices for existing last mile a handsome experience in the market in margin close to zero indicates that the infrastructure are still high. terms of innovation and affordable lowest prices that operators can afford services to end users. while remaining sustainable reach USD In 2018, MainOne announced new 0.75 million for large satellite operators, partnership with Avanti Communications In US, the captive market contributes over USD 1.19 million for small emerging Group Plc to host and manage the satellite 60 per cent of the entire satellite operators and USD 1 million for medium operator's in-country Gateway Earth revenues, while in Europe, it is even size established operators. Station bringing Avanti's HYLAS 4 satellite more, estimated to be over 70 per cent. into MDXI's satellite farm in Lagos. The However, in India, the regulator protects With this, global operators are in a project has seen Avanti invest up to USD 20 the captive market to the detriment of the position to enter a price war that no million in the Nigerian Gateway, ensuring foreign satellite operators. A foreign regional or local player is able to sustain. that data from the HYLAS 4 Ka-band satellite service provider, irrespective of This situation has been further worsened satellite is delivered efficiently in-country the extent of its satellite footprint over by the surging need of operators owned and interconnected with other networks. India will not be allowed to deployed by private equity forms to rapidly The HYLAS 4 Ka-band satellite at present services on transponders of any other improved their fill ratios. delivers High Throughput Satellite (HTS) satellite in so much as there are connectivity to complement the country's redundant capacity on the INSAT satellite Africa is expected to be the fastest existing fibre-optic networks, ensuring series. China has even more stringent growing data market in the world and with access is available to enable high-speed regulations. the majority of its capacity dedicated to internet everywhere, even to the most Africa. Before the current license, Avanti remote and rural locations. L a s t m o n t h , t h e N i g e r i a n has developed strong partnerships with Communications Commission granted its the largest telcoms operators in our core This move, according to the company will first landing right permit to AVANTI markets. guarantee partner organizations of the Communications Group Plc, a UK- based “In 2017, Avanti solicits partnership with Nigerian Internet Exchange with improved satellite operator, for hosting of its HYLAS MainOne and MDXI, to rollout satellite peering services, and enables data 4 Satellite space segment over Nigerian broadband services across Nigeria and proliferation for content providers hosted in territory. West Africa. Avanti's products will greatly MainOne's Data Center through to complement MainOne's existing network Nigerian Internet users. After having supplied broadband services and provide reliable broadband by leasing satellite capacity on the Intelsat connectivity to places within the region IS-903 for a number of years, reporting a without terrestrial fibre connectivity. base of 7 000 customers at the end of 2010, Avanti ordered the construction of Main One has got its challenges. For its first satellite baptized HYLAS, financed instatce, the Internet Exchange Point of by both public and private funds: it enjoys 5 APOINTMENTS consultancy with more than 250 divestiture of NewSkies to SES S.A. Steve Collar becomes professionals. Prior to Blackstone, he was a Vice honorary chair of World President at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division, where he Space Week 2020 Khalid Balkheyour provided banking and advisory services elected chair of EMEA to established and emerging companies in the broader communications sector. One of the biggest Space event on Earth, Satellite Operators the world Space Week, has appointed Steve Collar, the President and Chief Executive AssociationSource: Airbus Defence and Space Officer of SES as its honourary chair. World KVH appoints Ken Space Week is a United Nations-declared Khalid Balkheyour, President and CEO of event held each year between 4-10 October. the Arab Satellite Communications Loke as Vice In 2018, World Space Week included 5,400 Organization (ARABSAT) has been elected President events in 86 nations. In 2019, World Space as Chair of the EMEAProf Satellite Seidu Mohammed Operators Week will feature the Moon, with astronomy Association (ESOA) and will lead the KVH Industries has announced that Ken groups globally focusing telescopes on our association for the next two years.Libby Barr Loke has been named Vice President – nearest neighbor.

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