Global satellite connectivity provider SES has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kazakhstan’s Republican Centre for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation & Aerospace Industry, with the aim of accelerating the Digital Kazakhstan national development programme. The partners will explore service agreements for high speed satellite connectivity using SES’s O3b mPOWER communications system in Kazakhstan. RCSC and SES also intend to ‘look into using O3b mPOWER services for other Central Asian countries with ubiquitous broadband access to the internet’. SES notes that its next-generation low-latency medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation is scheduled to launch in Q3 2021, while its current generation of O3b satellites has been operational since 2014.
Earlier this month, CommsUpdate reported that Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network operator OneWeb signed an MoU with RCSC covering provision of broadband internet access to remote rural communities in Kazakhstan among other aims including establishing a regional hub for OneWeb.
Source: https://www.commsupdate.com/articles/2021/04/21/kazakhstan-signs-o3b-satellite-mou-with-ses/