According to industry reports, Liquid Intelligent Technologies has reached a distribution partner agreement with Eutelsat Group to see enterprise-grade low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite services available in Africa.
This partnership heralds a new era in a continent where satellite technology is still in its nascent stages. For Liquid Dataport’s customers, it means a quantum leap in performance for applications like cloud computing, video conferencing, and real-time applications. Liquid confidently stated that this is just the beginning of a brighter, more connected Africa.
Liquid Dataport is the wholesale connectivity arm of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a pan-African technology group.
The Eutelsat Group was formed by merging Eutelsat and OneWeb in 2023.
Notably, integrating the OneWeb LEO satellite network will offer lower latency, faster orbital periods, and higher bandwidth and position Africa at the forefront of satellite technology. OneWeb, a formidable competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, is owned by his company SpaceX.
The Eutelsat Group was formed in 2023 by merging Eutelsat and OneWeb. It became the first fully integrated GEO-LEO satellite operator with a fleet of 35 GEO satellites and a LEO constellation of more than 600 satellites.
TechCentral reported last week that Avanti Communications has partnered with Q-KON to deliver LEO satellite services via the Eutelsat OneWeb constellation in South Africa. And last November, NEC XON said it would sell OneWeb’s solutions in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa.
