Hughes, Yahsat Target Brazil With Second Joint Venture
Hello reader!
There is a note posted on (05/06) at
www.spacenews.com, announcing that Hughes, Yahsat, target Brazil with
second joint venture.
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Hughes, Yahsat Target Brazil With Second Joint Venture
By Caleb Henry
May 6, 2019
Credit: Hughes
Hughes President Pradman Kaul (left) and Yahsat CEO
Masood M. Sharif Mahmood, CEO of Yahsat, announced a new joint venture May 6
focused on satellite broadband in Brazil.
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WASHINGTON — Satellite operators Hughes and Yahsat have
formed a second joint venture, this time focused on broadband in Brazil.
The companies announced May 6 that the new joint venture
will use more than 65 gigabits per second of Ka-band capacity supplied from
Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite and Hughes’ leased payloads on Eutelsat’s 65 West A
satellite and Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage satellite.
Germantown, Maryland-based Hughes and Yahsat of Abu
Dhabi, UAE, formed
a joint venture last year focused on satellite broadband across Africa, the
Middle East and southwest Asia. That company started operations in December.
In a statement, Hughes President Pradman Kaul described
Yahsat as the “logical partner for Hughes in Brazil.”
Hughes and Yahsat say their satellites cover more than 95
percent of Brazil’s population. The joint venture will gain more capacity when
Jupiter-3, a half-terabit satellite from Maxar Technologies, launches in 2021,
the companies said.
Hughes and Yahsat’s new joint venture will offer internet
access directly to consumers and through community Wi-Fi hotspots. Other target
markets include businesses desiring their own networks and cellular companies
who want to backhaul data over satellite.
Hughes will be the majority shareholder in the joint
venture, which is expected to finalize later this year after receiving
customary regulatory approvals.
Kaul, speaking at a press conference May 6, said Hughes
will own 80 percent of the Brazil joint venture, with Yahsat owning the
remaining 20 percent. No cash was exchanged in forming the Brazilian company,
he said, unlike the first joint venture.
Hughes invested $100 million in its first joint venture
with Yahsat for what Masood M. Sharif Mahmood, Yahsat’s CEO, said was a 20
percent stake. Yahsat owns the remaining 80 percent of the first joint
venture.
Kaul estimated that of the roughly 65 gigabits per second
of capacity available to the joint venture, 30 to 40 percent is already in use.
He said consumer broadband will almost certainly be the largest market segment,
similar to Hughes’ business in the United States.
Source: Website www.spacenews.com
Comentário: Pois é leitor, é muito triste esta incluído entre
as nações que tem os seus mercados dominados por empresas estrangeiras graças a
falta de visão e de ação de diversos desgovernos populistas de merda seguidos,
governos estes que nos colocou nesta situação. Jamais desde Fernando Collor o
Programa Espacial foi conduzido com a seriedade e a competência necessária (o
pais não foi, que dirá o PEB) e hoje temos que nos comparar a países da África,
do Oriente Médio e do sudoeste da Ásia como citado na matéria, mesmo tendo o
quarto programa mais antigo do planeta. Parabéns aos chineses, indianos, etc,
etc, etc... Aproveitamos para agradecer cordialmente ao nosso leitor Marcelo Valentim pelo
envio dessa matéria.
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