MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, and global communications provider Omnispace deliver voice, data, fintech, digital, enterprise, wholesale and API services to over 290 million customers in 19 countries announced a partnership to
The partnership will explore the use of S-band for satellite services to expand MTN’s portfolio of wireless services in the market. S-band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a portion of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 GHz, portions of which are open in many countries. satellite service.
The companies will explore integrating MTN’s terrestrial mobile network with the Omnispace Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN), leveraging 3GPP standards, to provide consumer mobile and enterprise IoT services. The companies will also explore how they can collaborate in the development and growth of the device and software ecosystem.
Under this agreement, Omnispace will develop a next-generation, standards-based mobile and IoT network designed to serve the MTN market. In the meantime, the companies plan to partner to test existing technology and prove capabilities and use cases using Omnispace’s orbiting satellites.
By leveraging 5G technology, Omnispace combines a global footprint of non-geostationary satellites with the world’s leading carrier’s mobile network to provide interoperable connectivity to users and IoT devices anywhere in the world. It says it offers “one network” connectivity. .
This is the second recent announcement regarding Omnispace and S-band communications. In February, we announced that Brazilian regulator Anatel approved a request from Omnispace subsidiary Omnispace Comunicação Brasil to operate a non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) system nationally using the S-band. reported that it did.
