Hughes and Bharti Airtel Win Innovation Award for Integrated Satellite Broadband Solution in Africa

Bharti Airtel utilizes Hughes broadband satellite solution to help close the digital divide, providing Internet access, rural telephony and GSM backhaul in Mali, West Africa

 

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, and its customer, leading telecom company Bharti Airtel, were named as winners of the Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Award for Satellite Voice and Data Innovation for their African SOTELMA project. The annual GTB Award ceremony, which took place in London earlier in June, celebrated the most innovative and exciting projects undertaken by operators and vendors globally, which are making a significant difference in connecting the world.

 

Utilizing the advanced Hughes HX broadband satellite platform, Bharti Airtel implemented a cost-effective, integrated solution for its customer, Sotelma, an important service provider in Mali, to offer a wide range of business services to their enterprise customers throughout the country. The award-winning solution enables services such as broadband Internet/Intranet access, GSM backhaul, and rural telephony, including connectivity to the national public switched telephone network (PSTN) in even the most remote parts of the country.

 

“We are honored to receive this award with Bharti Airtel, which is a tribute to the hard work of all who contributed to this unique project,”

said Robert Feierbach, vice president of global sales and marketing, International at Hughes. “Helping close the digital divide is a worldwide imperative, and especially important in African nations such as Mali, where our flexible HX solution sets a new standard in enabling high quality and cost-effective broadband services for local businesses.”

Soheil Mehrabanzad, assistant vice president, Middle East/Africa region at Hughes stated, “This award reflects the strong relationship between Hughes and Bharti Airtel and how well we worked together to deliver this important project.”

 

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This article was originally posted on Africa ICT & Telecom Network

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