Intersat boosting satellite internet services in Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Senegal via Eutelsat Konnect

Intersat – a provider of VSAT internet solutions across Africa – has signed a multi-year deal with Eutelsat Communications to utilise the latter’s Eutelsat Konnect high-throughput satellite for meeting the connectivity needs of enterprises, institutions and individuals in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. A press release highlighted that Intersat will take advantage of Eutelsat Konnect’s reach to ‘provide a robust and high-quality Internet service to customers located beyond the limits of terrestrial infrastructure’. The agreement represents the entire available capacity of the satellite across the three countries (‘several hundred Mbps’).