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Palau Telecoms goes live
on O3b satellite network
O3b
Networks confirmed that
its customer
Palau Telecoms has
successfully gone live
on O3b’s innovative
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
satellite constellation.
Located in the
western Pacific Ocean,
Palau’s 21,000 people
are spread across 250
islands, which do not
have access to undersea
fiber cable.
The
use of O3b satellites,
which are closer to the
earth than conventional
geostationary (GEO)
satellites, reduces
latency, increases
Internet speed and
improves voice and video
quality for the user.
Palau
Telecom is the second
customer for O3b in
Palau. The
low latency and high
throughput service
provided by O3b will
enable Palau Telecom to
provide their wireless
internet customers with
a higher quality of
experience.
O3b’s
unique combination of
fiber speed with the
reach and reliability of
satellites has been very
popular in the region.
O3b’s
total
capacity contracted in
the Pacific
region is now 5
Gbps. The company’s
clients in the pacific
region include: Digicel
PNG, Digicel Samoa,
Norfolk Island Telecom,
Palau National
Communications
Corporation, FSMTC Yap,
FSMTC Chuuk, Solomon
Telecom, Telecom Cook
Islands and Timor
Telecom.
Sam Masang, CEO,
Palau Telecoms said:
“We are
very proud to be among
the early adopters of
the O3b network, which
allows us to improve our
customer experience and
launch new services,
including Wireless TV.
Palau Telecoms intends
to provide a better
experience to its
customers by replacing
the high latency GEO
services with the low
latency and high
throughput O3b services.
“
Imran
Malik O3b
VP -
Asia Pacific & the
Middle East, said:
“We are very
happy to welcome Palau
Telecoms as a live
customer on our network.
O3b’s unrivalled
performance means that
it is already the market
leader in the Pacific
region. And as demand
for O3b service
continues to grow, we
will add new satellites
to provide growth for
existing customer needs
and capacity for new
customers that need to
support latency
sensitive applications
such as HD video, 3G/LTE
mobile data and cloud
services.”
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