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Onlime ups Ku-band capacity over Africa
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ommunication service provider
Onlime has agreed a new three
year contract with Telesat for
Telstar 11N Ku-band capacity linking
Europe and Africa. Onlime has KuBand coverage over the whole of
Africa and the Telstar 11N footprint
over the western part of sub-Saharan
Africa is an important part of the
jigsaw. Onlime started with pre-launch
capacity on the satellite and has seen
demand grow steadily over the past
five years. Onlime delivers both SCPC
and iDirect Evolution services on
Telstar 11N to a wide variety of
customers.
Nigel Gibson, VP, international sales
at Telesat, said the coverage and
capabilities of Telstar 11N over Africa
and Europe had led to steadily growing
demand for the satellite across these
highly competitive markets. “We are
delighted to see our relationship with
Telesat continuing to grow in these
challenging times as Telstar 11N forms a
key part of our network coverage
strategy over Africa. Demand in Africa
for all types of business communication
services continues to exceed our
expectations and Onlime plans to be at
the forefront of delivering the full range
of services to our predominantly
enterprise customers,” added Paul
Ziegler, Onlime CEO.
TRACE extends reach with Multichoice
rand and
multimedia group
TRACE’s #1
entertainment channel for
sport and celebrity lovers,
TRACE Sport Stars (DStv
channel 188) is now
available to new fans
across Africa with its
move to the DStv Extra,
Compact and Family
packages.
With this new deal, TRACE
Sport Stars will significantly
increase its reach in the
African market, underlining its
point of reference for the
young and the young-at-heart,
while broadening its appeal to
advertisers and brands.
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TRACE Sport Stars was
previously only available on
the DStv Premium package.
Laurent Dumeau, CEO
TRACE Sport Stars said:“We
are excited to be extending our
deal with MultiChoice to bring
TRACE Sport Stars unique
sport and entertainment
programming to a much wider
audience base across Africa.
With an ever-increasing
demand for the TRACE brand
in the region it is important we
WRN Broadcast links with Voxafrica
Broadcast services
specialist WRN Broadcast is
providing essential fibre
connectivity to support
8 Africa Briefing
Voxafrica, a world leading
TV broadcaster of Pan
African news and general
entertainment. WRN
Broadcast’s fully redundant
fibre connectivity enables
Voxafrica’s feed to reach its
distribution point for
onward transmission to
DSTV and Canal Sat in
Africa, as well as a number
of IPTV platforms in France.
“Reliability of service is
crucial for our brand and we
are pleased to be working
with WRN Broadcast on this
fundamental element of our
broadcast chain. We also look
forward to exploring how
reach those fans that have not
previously been able to access
the channel. We are confident
the channel will bring those
subscribers a great mix of
content where sport meets
glamour and scandal, and
where athletes reveal their real
lives and personalities.”
Aletta Alberts, GM for
content at MultiChoice, said
TRACE Sport Stars was a treat
for sport lovers as it gives
unprecedented behind-thescenes access to the lives of
stars in the world of sports.
“Our DStv Extra, Compact and
Family customers will no doubt
enjoy the range of unique
programmes,” he suggested.
their international network
can support our expansion to
new markets and platforms
around the world,”
commented Brice Beauvillain,
technical director, Voxafrica
“We believe in building
long-lasting partnerships with
all our customers and
welcome this three-year
contract to support
Voxafrica’s provision of world
class content to Africa and
Europe. We wish Voxafrica
every ongoing success,”
added Tom Eyton-Jones,
Business Development
Manager, WRN Broadcast.