Eutelsat and Paratus Expand OneWeb Connectivity Across Southern Africa
Eutelsat and Paratus have signed a new multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement to extend OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity services across Southern Africa, expanding the partnership between the two companies.
Under the deal, Paratus will enhance its delivery of Eutelsat’s LEO broadband services across South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia, supporting both fixed and mobile applications, including comms-on-the-move and comms-on-pause use cases. The collaboration builds on Paratus’s role as one of Eutelsat’s earliest LEO adopters and its construction of the OneWeb ground station in Angola, which plays a central role in the constellation’s African operations.
Eutelsat RVP for MEA Ghassan Murat said the expanded partnership “reflects the success of our collaboration with Paratus and our shared ambition to provide reliable, scalable, low-latency connectivity in the region.” Schalk Erasmus, CEO of Paratus, added that the combined GEO and LEO capabilities will enable “greater flexibility and performance,” particularly for enterprise and industrial customers operating in remote or distributed environments.