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Intelsat and Vodacom signed an agreement to provide...

Intelsat and Vodacom signed an agreement to provide Intelsat’s managed broadband service to Vodacom. That will help Vodacom offer a differentiated broadband service targeting the small office/home office and small- and medium-sized enterprise users across sub-Saharan Africa, Intelsat said in…

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a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/1dKh7zN). Intelsat plans to provide Ku-band capacity to Vodacom on Intelsat 28 at 32.8 degrees east, it said. The solution will be powered by Hughes, it said. When Intelsat 33e launches in 2016, Vodacom plans to use its capacity to access a high performance overlay “that will provide additional throughput for its busiest regions,” Intelsat said.