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Kacific Secures Infrastructure Location with Petro1 for Its Broadband

Services to Indonesia and the Wider Region

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has selected PT. CEO, Christian Patouraux. “Our high-speed broadband will
Petro One Indonesia (Petro1) to provide ground infrastructure supplement and augment the Government connectivity programs
services in Indonesia for its brand-new satellite, built by which aim to strengthen broadband infrastructure across the
Boeing, which will launch at the end of 2019. Petro1 will host, nation. Petro1 has a highly trained technical team and access to
operate and provide first level support for Kacific’s gateway excellent facilities, which will ensure the optimal performance of
hub at its secure facilities in Surabaya and Pasuruan, East Java, the Kacific1 satellite in Indonesia.” Petro1 CEO Marlina Sagaf says,
Indonesia. The state-of-the-art primary gateway will include “We are very pleased to have won the trust and business of Kacific
a 9-metre antenna and associated equipment to transmit and for this long-term teleport hosting, support and the maintenance
distribute data to and from the satellite. An additional diversity component of this remarkable high-speed satellite. Petro1 and
site, over 60 kilometers away, will ensure better availability and Kacific will bring to the Indonesian people a great internet usage
a redundancy capability. Petro1 will provide a high-grade, well- enabler to the entire Indonesian archipelago, especially for people
fibered secured data center environment for the system servers, and businesses in rural or remote locations. Together with Kacific,
24/7 service care, which includes onsite service staff 24/7. The our Petro1 team intends to provide a robust and reliable high
satellite’s high-power beams cover Indonesia’s many islands and speed VSAT service from our earth station locations in Surabaya
surrounding ocean, delivering affordable, high-speed broadband and Pasuruan.” Internet penetration had reached 55 percent of
to telecommunications companies, internet service providers and Indonesia’s population, serving 145 million people in the nation
governments. This contract with local partners represents a multi- in 2017. Kacific1 covers remote islands and will help connect
million dollar infrastructure investment into Indonesia by satellite some of the estimated 119 million unconnected Indonesians.
operator Kacific. “Kacific chose to locate its ground infrastructure Kacific broadband will power services such as mobile backhaul
in Indonesia because it is a priority market for us,” says Kacific for cellular networks and broadband internet over VSAT (satellite
dishes under 1.5 metres) for small and medium-sized businesses.
Its services will increase connectivity and internet access in areas
that are beyond the economical reach of terrestrial infrastructures.
Petro1 is a system integrator company with the main business
focus in the area of ICT “Information Communication Technology”
and telecommunication infrastructure for onshore and offshore
businesses. Petro1 is well experienced in delivering an end-to-
end service based on individual client’s needs; from engineering
design and procurement to construction and installation. Petro1
provides both VSAT and ISP services and other connectivity
solutions (radio, fiber optic and GSM), surveillance security
monitoring systems (CCTV, PAGA, navigation, telemetry) and
facility infrastructures (network and data centers, hosting and co-
location, cabling, power and termination systems).

Tunisia’s Telnet to Launch First Home-Made Satellite in July 2020

Tunisia’s first satellite, Challenge ONE, consulting company, Telnet Group. “The launches of Soyuz-2 rockets, GK Launch
will be launched in July 2020 from the satellite cost one million Tunisian dinars Services, for putting in space Tunisia’s first
Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome (about 349,825 U.S. dollars), while its satellite in 2020. Challenge ONE in-orbit
in south-central Kazakhstan aboard global counterpart cost about 5 million operation will serve as a precursor mission
the Russian Soyuz-2.1A, reports Tunis Tunisian dinars (1.7 million U.S. dollars),” for a constellation of 30 satellites. Telnet
Afrique Presse (TAP) news agency citing Frikka said. “We were able to control costs Group has already signed a tripartite deal
Telnet CEO Mohamed Frikha as saying. thanks to the technological resources with two Russian companies, SPUTNIX
Challenge ONE is a scientific research and of the Telnet group, which opened up and GK Launch Services, for the launch
technology demonstrator satellite offering new horizons for the space technology of the 30-satellite constellation by 2023
new concepts in information technologies sector in Tunisia through cooperation for the development of a network of IoT
and their practical applications. The small with international partners,” he added. applications.
satellite is developed in-house by Tunisia’s On 1 April 2019, Telnet signed a contract
publicly traded engineering and technology with the Russian operator of commercial

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