Africa SATCOMs restricted
African nations have a fundamental issue with ground infrastructure that is holding the region back from full SATCOM capabilities.
While SATCOMs, commercial or military, can offer a solution to communication problems across Africa the ground network is not sufficiently advanced enough to be able to utilise any capability that might become available.
Speaking on a panel at the Global MilSatcom conference in London, Mark Lambert, MD at Advantech Wireless said: ‘Ultimately cost is holding Africa back, industry needs to work on how we can develop solutions that can be acceptable to the costs that African nations can afford.’
Two main scenarios were identified
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