Avanti Communications is a UK-based satellite operator and provider of wholesale satellite broadband and connectivity services across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). They operate a fleet of four Ka-band HYLAS high-throughput satellites (HTS) and a network of Gateway Earth Stations. Avanti offers services to mobile network operators, internet service providers, enterprises, governments, and other satellite operators, delivering connectivity solutions to connect the unconnected and provide secure, reliable communications. The company recently moved its headquarters to Spaceport Cornwall's Space Systems Operations Facility.
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StarWin successfully tested an Electronically Steered Phased Array Antenna (ESA) terminal for Communications on the Move (COTM) on Avanti Communications’ HYLAS 4 Ka-band satellite earlier 2023-10.
Avanti’s HYLAS Ka-band satellites offer 50 GHz of capacity.
Yahsat’s Al Yah 3, Avanti Communications’ Hylas 4, and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicles MEV-1 and MEV-2 are operating with reduced power to their thrusters following a problem with onboard Power Processing Units.
Avanti’s fleet of four HYLAS Ka-band satellites offers 50 GHz of capacity and covers more than 1.7 billion people in 118 countries.
Avanti operates more than 100 fixed beams, five steerable beams, and a steerable cluster of eight beams delivering services across EMEA, Asia, and the Americas.
Avanti Communications has four GEO satellites, two of which are slated to reach the end of their operational lives around 2027 and 2028.
Avanti plans to connect a further 10,000 sites over the next 5 years.
Avanti Communications completed the second phase of its project to build a new HYLAS 4 satellite gateway station in Dakar, Senegal.
Avanti committed 75% of its total investment to bring more connectivity to Africa.
Avanti announced a five-year partnership with Turkey’s Turksat on 2022-09-13 to pool more than 100 gigabits-per-second of Ka-band capacity across Africa and the Middle East.
Avanti is building a satellite gateway in Senegal to extend the coverage of Hylas 4 to West Africa.
Avanti Extend enables customers to provide reliable cellular service to the 100 million people living in remote and hard-to-reach locations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Avanti will combine capacity and coverage from its HYLAS 4 and HYLAS 2 satellites with Turksat’s Turksat-5B satellite to provide customers access to more than 100 Gbps of GEO Ka-band capacity.
The Bidi Bidi project in sub-Saharan Africa by Avanti Communications is a past recipient of the Better Satellite World Awards.
Avanti Communications is focusing on supporting tower companies and mobile operators to physically deploy rural connectivity sites across Africa.
Hylas 3, Avanti Communications’ latest satellite, launched in August 2019.
Avanti Communications was targeting a fleet fill rate increase from 48% toward 70–80% in 2020 and had reached about 60% at the time of the interview.
Avanti Communications built a fleet of five geostationary satellites to provide Ka-band broadband coverage across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Avanti Communications is prioritizing partnerships and distribution capability in Africa rather than immediately procuring a classic GEO satellite with a four- to five-year lead time and roughly $300,000,000 cost.
Avanti Communications identified monetizing Hylas-3 and increasing service in about 10 to 12 tougher African countries, including Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as priorities to raise fleet fill rates.