Get Ready Africa!
Imagine - Satellite Broadband at Fiber Prices
Satellites are the best technology to reach remote locations, and also places where there aren't enough customers living close together enough to justify the high costs of laying fiber. Need proof? Have you heard of a fiber optic network on Mount Everest?
What if satellite broadband could be offered at prices rivalling fiber capacity? Our research has shown that there the amount of satellite capacity in orbit today would not be enough to meet the demands of the projected Internet growth in Africa.
The Need
Internet penetration is the key to unlocking the economic advancements in countries, and the countries in Africa have the largest potential. Over the last decade the race to broadband enable these countries has been led by submarine fiber optic cables such as Seacom, SAT-3, WACS, GLO-1, MainOne, and ACE. These submarine cables breached the shoreline cities of many coastal African countries, but neglected the cities inland and also land locked countries. The last five years has been another race, the race to reach major inland cities. The race is almost completed, and now many major inland cities are connected to to submarine cables. Unfortunately, the cost of broadband inland is 2x and sometime up to 4x of the costs on shore. Fiber does well in dense urban areas where subscribers are within meters to each other. As a result, sub-urban and rural areas have no access to fiber, and have no plans for fiber in the near future due because it is not economically viable. Only 7.2% of the African population lives within 50 Kilometers of coastlines.
At the current rate of bandwidth expansion in sub-urban and rural regions in Africa, the current number of satellites currently in orbit and planned, will not have enough bandwidth to supply the exponential demand.
26%
The African continent has
one of the lowest internet
penetration percentages in
the world. The global
average is 45.2%
54%
of the Africa internet users
are in: Nigeria,Kenya,South Africa,
and Egypt. The remaining 136M Internet users
are spread across 50 countries.
73%
of africans have no access to
Internet.These 827 million
peoples need access soon
75%
annual growth in Internet
Users in Africa is exploding
Our Technology
Uses
Our Team

Yen Choi
Board Member 20+ years Entreprenurial Telecom Experience Co-Founder & CTO - Netcom Africa (Nigeria) ...

Christof Kern
CEO 15+ Years Satellite Industry Experience Experienced in IPO, LBO, private Equity, and M&A. Shaped...

Liam Martin
Advisor Satellite systems specialist with over 20 years industry experience specialising in start-ups Past...

Martin Gee
CTO Senior satellite technology veteran with over 40 years experience in the satellite industry Past...
News
Press Releases2015.10.15 Fibersat appoints Telecom Industry Veteran, Ted Manvitz to Board of Advisors
In the Press
2015.10.08 [Satellite Today] New HTS Tech the Key to Fibersat Hosted Payload
2015.09.19 [Tele Satellite Numérique] Fibersat-1 débarque en Afrique en 2018 avec Arabsat
2015.09.14 [Via Satellite] Fibersat signs hosted payload deal with Arabsat
2015.09.14 [Telecom Paper] Fibersat, Arabsat sign deal for a hosted payload over EMEA
2015.09.14 [SatNews Publishers] Fibersat set to deliver Services Across EMEA Via Arabsat
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