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Yahsat and Eutelsat Partner to Expand Satellite Broadband in Africa
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Yahsat and Eutelsat Partner to Expand Satellite Broadband in Africa
by Erica Marchand
Paris, France (SPX) May 23, 2024
Eutelsat Group (ISIN: FR0010221234 - Euronext Paris / London Stock Exchange: ETL) and YahClick, the data solutions arm of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat), the UAE's flagship satellite solutions (ADX: YAHSAT, ISIN: AEA007501017), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This agreement allows YahClick to use capacity on Eutelsat's geostationary satellite, EUTELSAT KONNECT.

The collaboration supports Yahsat's efforts to enhance its offerings and drive growth across its satellite broadband footprint in Africa. Yahsat will have exclusive rights to Eutelsat's KONNECT capacity over Ethiopia, a rapidly growing market in Africa.

EUTELSAT KONNECT, in service since November 2020, is a high throughput satellite delivering broadband services with 75 Gbps of capacity across 65 spotbeams. Initially covering Europe and Africa, the satellite's capacity is being transferred to provide dedicated African coverage.

Sulaiman Al Ali, Chief Commercial Officer of Yahsat, commented: "We are delighted to partner with Eutelsat and have access to state-of-the-art orbital assets, to support our satellite network. This partnership shall enable us to further enhance our portfolio and drive growth of our 'YahClick' broadband services to consumer and enterprise markets. 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."

Ghassan Murat, Eutelsat's RVP of the AMEA region, added: "We are honoured to further deepen our ties with our long-standing partner, Yahsat. 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."

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