Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Intelsat bets on the mobility vertical with a new model for rural areas in Latin America

Juan Pablo Cofino, Regional VP for Latin America and the Caribbean of the satellite operator, assured Convergencialatina that operations in the region will not be affected by the judicial recovery process in the United States. He ruled out layoffs and estimated that the financial restructuring will take between six and twelve months.

The mobile broadband model in rural areas of Peru faced by Intelsat and Andesat has 13 sites deployed. With shared infrastructure and network construction costs, the companies aim to establish 17 sites by the end of May and 154 by the end of the year. The project takes advantage of the Operador de Infraestructura Móvil Rural (OIMR) (Rural Mobile Infrastructure Operator) license of Andesat, while Intelsat collaborates with the construction of an integrated space, mobile broadband infrastructure, bandwidth capacity and integrated service operations.

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