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Avanti and Free Strike Satellite Gateway Deal in Senegal

services to Avanti’s carrier customers,
extending their reach to rural areas and
other semi-urban locations where terrestrial
networks are currently limited or unreliable.
The partnership also aims to have a big
impact on education, enabling e-learning
services for schools across the region.
Free Senegal will build and operate the new
gateway from its Tier III data center facility
in Diamniadio outside the capital Dakar,
adding Avanti as a strategic customer
to its growing enterprise business in
Senegal and supporting the Government’s
Digital Senegal 2025 strategy. Pending
approval from the Senegalese authorities,
the gateway is planned to go live in
December 2022. Kyle Whitehill, CEO of
Avanti Communications, commented: “This
strategic partnership with Free in Senegal
Avanti Communications has signed a West African countries of Guinea, Sierra demonstrates our commitment to working
five-year partnership agreement with Free Leone, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, and Liberia, with local partners in Africa such as Free
which will see the latter firm build and as well as completing Avanti’s coverage of in order to increase the coverage of our
host a new satellite gateway in Senegal Ivory Coast. The expanded coverage will satellite fleet - benefitting countries and
for Avanti’s HYLAS 4 state-of-the-art Ka- significantly increase access to high-speed territories that are often overlooked when it
band satellite. HYLAS 4 is Avanti’s latest satellite internet for the countries’ schools, comes to high-speed broadband.”
satellite, and the new gateway will extend hospitals and communities. The new
its coverage to Senegal and the neighboring gateway will also provide satellite backhaul

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