Singapore-based Kacific has been selected to supply French Polynesia with a satellite broadband solution using its soon-to-be-commissioned Kacific1 satellite. As such, by 2020 around 276,000 people across the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas Islands and the Austral Islands will be able to receive high speed internet access.
Christian Patouraux, founder and CEO of Kacific, commented: ‘I created Kacific to allow everyone to access the internet in the Pacific Islands … With our new Kacific1 satellite, even people living on the remote and sparsely populated islands of French Polynesia will have the opportunity to connect to broadband internet. And the connection will be maintained permanently, regardless of the possible problems related to the terrestrial fibre network.’