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O3b
Networks announced a
multi-year agreement to
provide trunking
services to
Solomon Telekom
Company Limited (trading
as Our Telekom).
Under the agreement, Our
Telekom
will use O3b as their
backhaul provider from
the Solomon
Islands
to
the Internet.
The
Solomon Islands is the
fifth largest nation in
the Oceania region
behind Australia, PNG,
New Zealand and Fiji,
with over 1000 Islands
and an extremely
dispersed population.
Our Telekom is currently
rolling out ADSL and
embarking on 3G
implementation to the
main Islands.
The
O3b service will allow
Our Telekom to
significantly increase
its bandwidth and
improve the speed and
quality of its service
for business and
residential customers
in
Honiara, the capital
city of the Solomon
Islands and, over time,
to the Outer Islands.
O3b’s
next generation IP
trunking solution that
boosts existing link
capacities to rival the
affordability and
latency of fiber. The
O3bTrunk product
line delivers lower
latencies than long haul
fiber, with round-trip
latency of less than 150
milliseconds. The result
is the highest quality
voice and video in the
satellite industry.
Loyley Ngira, CEO of Our
Telekom, said:
“O3b will allow the
Solomon Islands access
to ultra-fast and very
low latency internet in
advance of the planned
undersea fiber optic
cable and will allow Our
Telekom to in time
provide faster services
to other parts of the
country and have a first
class backup service for
the fiber cable. O3b
will enable Our Telekom
to transform the way
people in the Solomon
Islands work, learn and
allow the healthcare
sector to use real time
medical applications not
previously available.
For our tourism sector
O3b will enable us to
grow the market allowing
travelers to have access
to the high speed
internet services they
are used to in their own
countries. Our Telekom
has always been The
Innovator in the Solomon
Islands market and this
partnership with O3b
enables us to deliver
even better quality of
service to our
customers.”
Steve
Collar, CEO, O3b said:
“Our
Telekom will now benefit
from the fibre-like
speeds and low latency
of the O3b
network.
Utilizing MEO (Medium
Earth Orbit) satellites
at much low altitudes,
O3b can offer fiber-like
speeds with lower
latency at more
affordable wholesale
pricing.
Honiara
will now be able to
fully access the World
Wide Web as easily and
efficiently as users in
any major city in the
world. Accessing O3b’s
affordable and
ubiquitous bandwidth
with the performance and
speed of fiber,
Our Telekom
customers
in the capital will
enjoy much improved
connectivity.”
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