MZANSISAT: Affordable Broadband Via Satellite Tech Awaits South Africa Go-ahead for Lift-off
In today’s digital era, if you lot are non online, you’re locked out of society. Sadly, this is the electrical flow province of affairs many South Africans facial expression upwards as the cost of broadband access for them far exceeds that of most of their peers living inwards other parts of the world. Tapping into innovative, locally developed satellite technology, however, has presented a calorie-free at the terminate of the tunnel alongside an chance for South Africa – together with the African continent as a whole – to reap the benefits of inclusive, affordable together with reliable network access.
This is according to MzansiSat Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bart Cilliers, who notes that satellites are the alone reliable together with time-efficient short-term solution to expanding broadband access on a national level.
A recent written report past times Point Topic – a resources for worldwide broadband, IPTV together with VoIP marketplace tidings – revealed that ADSL together with fibre prices inwards South Africa are the 16th most expensive inwards the world. The enquiry scorecard used inwards the written report compared the entry-level, media, together with average residential broadband tariffs inwards eighty countries.
With this inwards mind, MzansiSat Chief Operations Officer (COO), Victor Stephanopoli asks, “What is your constitutional correct of costless vocalization communication worth, if you lot accept no decent agency of making your vocalization heard?”
MzansiSat’s concept of a satellite for Africans, which volition accept the mightiness to deliver inexpensive together with ubiquitous broadband capabilities, was lately announced at the ITU Telecom World conference which was hosted past times the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) inwards Durban from the 10th to the 13th of September. Cilliers highlights that the ITU platform has given the squad behind the proposal the chance to assemble valuable insights on the African telecoms industry’s regulatory environment.
The proposed excogitation volition too last presented to manufacture leaders, determination makers together with legislators at the upcoming Aerospace, Maritime together with Defence (AMD) Conference, from the 18th to the 23rd of September, together with the Africa Aerospace together with Defence (AAD) Expo, from the 19th to the 23rd of September.
Cilliers says, “We accept been working on this concept since 2013 alongside the principal destination of connecting South Africa to the reason through novel infrastructure anchored past times the showtime South African owned together with operated telecoms satellite.”
Hoping to have populace sector buy-in to launch their showtime satellite – MzansiSat-1 – into infinite together with debut their offering to the African marketplace inwards 2022, MzansiSat is, inwards Cilliers’ words, gear upwards to go. “The biggest challenge nosotros facial expression upwards is securing the legislative together with political approving nosotros demand to launch the satellite. Once this box is ticked, superfast, super-cheap satellite network offering competition-shattering pricing together with armed forces flat encryption tin laissez passer on the sack last a reality, ensuring greater access to engineering together with the opportunities that come upwards along alongside it.”
“While the infrastructure required to supply the service has the potential to lay the reason of a novel African economy, consumers volition non last required to pay for this infrastructure – members of the populace volition only last paying for their ain connective service,” he explains.
MzansiSat Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Bernard Greyling, adds that the infrastructure surrounding the MzansiSat concept volition non alone improve the value of the country’s telecoms manufacture together with back upwards the national broadband evolution framework but volition too deed as a foundational breakthrough inwards terms of providing a novel way of sharing applications together with services alongside the African public. This is over together with inwards a higher house the almost immediate value to the populace – empowering them alongside a great, affordable connective – no snags, no strings,” Greyling explains.
Already gaining international recognition, MzansiSat was shortlisted for the prestigious ITU Telecom World Global SME Award 2018.
Cilliers concludes, “While the province has experienced turbulence alongside regards to its economical stability in recent years, South Africa keeps growing together with then volition our demand to communicate alongside the global community. With this excogitation at our fingertips, at that topographic point is no improve fourth dimension than the introduce to launch South Africa into a realm of inclusive connectivity.”
“Invaluable opportunities for greater awareness together with debate, such as those presented past times the ITU Telecom World conference, which promotes our shared destination of creating a strong telecoms structure, volition alone add together to the motivation to curlicue out the MzansiSat concept. I’d similar to personally give thank you lot those who brought the conference to South Africa: Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General together with Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General. Special thank you lot should too last extended to Rahul Jha, Officer at the UN Agency, who organised together with made the ITU Telecom World conference a reality, together with supported MzansiSat throughout.”
The manufacture trunk has expressed its usual admiration alongside ITU Deputy Secretary-General, Malcolm Johnson tweeting, “Very interesting view to @MzansiSat booth – fascinating innovative approach to connect South Africans equally, everywhere. #ITUWorld”.
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