Andesat, part of Grupo Andesat, is a telecommunications company specializing in satellite communications solutions, focusing on providing connectivity to remote areas within the Andean region of Latin America. They operate three teleports and utilize multiple geostationary satellites to offer services such as cellular backhaul, internet access, and corporate networking. Andesat partners with companies like Intelsat, SatADSL, and ST Engineering iDirect to expand cellular networks and deliver value-added services, especially in rural areas. The company's key focus areas include satellite connectivity, cellular network expansion, and telecommunications services.
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In 2021, Astranis and Andesat had a contract worth more than $90,000,000 over Andesat-1’s eight-year design life in orbit.
Orbits Corp, part of Philippine internet service provider HTechCorp, claimed a small geostationary spacecraft that Astranis had reserved for Andesat and renamed it Agila.
Andesat was one of the first customers Astranis announced after the company was founded in 2015.
The Andesat contract included a teleport for Astranis to build in Peru and an option for a second satellite that could launch as early as 2024.
As part of Te Conectamos Perú, Andesat will boost voice and broadband connectivity access and offer high-throughput satellite services that are reliable, affordable, and cloud ready using SES Managed Enterprise Services in 280 remote sites by the end of 2022.
SES and Andesat partnered to bring 0.003 kg/0.004 kg connectivity to rural communities and broadband connectivity to key industries in the Andean Region.
As part of the Te Conectamos Perú project, Andesat will boost voice and broadband connectivity and offer high-throughput satellite services in 280 remote Peruvian sites by the end of 2022 using SES’s Managed Enterprise Services.
Andesat selected SES to deliver enhanced connectivity services via the SES-14 satellite over Chile and Peru.
Andesat tapped SES to offer enhanced connectivity services via the SES-14 satellite to support enterprise services and universal service obligation commitments over Chile and Peru.
Andesat and SES have a partnership to expand satellite-delivered telecommunications solutions across the Andean Region.
One of the four Astranis satellites contracted for SpaceX launches in 2023 is for Peru’s telecommunications service Andesat.
Astranis’ four-satellite payload on SpaceX’s 2023 mission includes two satellites for inflight connectivity provider Anuvu, one satellite for Peruvian telco Andesat, and one satellite without an announced customer.
Astranis is investing millions of dollars to construct a gateway in Peru as part of the Andesat project.
Andesat started operations as a wholesale satellite services provider in Chile in July 2010 and also has operations in Argentina and Ecuador with plans to expand into Paraguay and Bolivia.
Andesat plans to use Andesat-1 to expand internet access in remote areas of Peru and to upgrade cellular services in the country from 0.002 kg to 0.004 kg.
An initial Astranis satellite under the Andesat deal will launch into service in 2023 to become the first satellite dedicated solely to serving the people of Peru.
Astranis signed an agreement to provide broadband capacity with Astranis MicroGEO communications satellites to Grupo Andesat (Andesat).
Andesat already operates a teleport in Peru and will be responsible for ongoing ground operations once Astranis completes construction of the new gateway.
Andesat plans to use Astranis MicroGEO satellites to expand broadband internet access in remote areas of Peru and increase its coverage footprint while lowering operator costs per cell site.
Andesat expects to be operating 500 cell towers by 2023 and plans to add sites at a rate of 50–80 sites per month to reach a 1,000-site coverage goal one year after launching Andesat-1.