Yahsat partners with Eutelsat Group for Internet Connectivity
Will Leverage EUTELSAT KONNECT Satellite to Drive Growth
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Yahsat and Eutelsat Group that will facilitate the use of the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite by YahClick, the data solutions’ arm of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company.
"This partnership shall enable us to further enhance our portfolio and drive growth of our ‘YahClick’ broadband services to consumer and enterprise markets."
Sulaiman Al Ali, Yahsat
The collaboration between these two satellite operators is in line with Yahsat’s efforts to elevate its offerings and drive growth across its satellite broadband footprint in Africa to provide enhanced services and expand into new markets in Africa and beyond. As part of the agreement. Yahsat will enjoy exclusive rights to Eutelsat’s KONNECT capacity over Ethiopia, one of the fastest-growing African markets.
In service since November 2020, EUTELSAT KONNECT is a high throughput satellite delivering significant resources for broadband services with 75 Gbps of capacity across a network of 65 spotbeams. Originally covering Europe and Africa, the satellite’s entire capacity is being progressively transferred to provide dedicated African coverage.
"This partnership shall enable us to further enhance our portfolio and drive growth of our ‘YahClick’ broadband services to consumer and enterprise markets," said Sulaiman Al Ali, Chief Commercial Officer of Yahsat. "Yahsat supported Eutelsat in the early years of its African Broadband journey, and we are happy to be collaborating once again to ensure our existing and future customers benefit from the highest level of service and availability.”
"Yahsat’s strong presence in Africa and the Middle East through the successful deployment of its YahClick satellite broadband service, together with the uptake we are seeing as we progressively transfer EUTELSAT KONNECT capacity to Africa highlight the buoyant demand for robust broadband services in the market, and the pertinence of satellite in connecting users, even in the most remote locations,” said Ghassan Murat, Eutelsat’s RVP of the AMEA region.