Nuran Wireless is a supplier of mobile and broadband wireless solutions, offering GSM, LTE, and White Space radio access network (RAN) and backhaul products. They focus on providing connectivity solutions for rural and urban areas, connectivity to offshore platforms and ships, and for emergency and crisis communications. The company has partnered with organizations like Spacecom, Eutelsat and NASA, for whom they supplied software-defined radios (SDRs) for use in aeronautics and space applications such as NASA's SCAN Testbed. Nuran aims to bridge the digital divide by enabling mobile network operators to expand coverage in hard-to-reach regions, particularly in Africa.
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Spacecom will buy 9.3% of rural connectivity provider Nuran Wireless to strengthen its presence in Africa.
Spacecom is making a $3,200,000 investment in NuRAN Wireless and is acquiring 9.3% of NuRAN’s equity subject to the contract’s conditions.
The $3,200,000 deal includes exclusive rights for providing satellite capacity and bandwidth to Nuran Wireless’s future operations in Africa.
Nuran Wireless had not determined locations for the remaining 120 planned sites in Cameroon at the time of the update.
The agreement between Spacecom and Nuran Wireless coincides with 4iG’s pursuit of a 51% stake in Spacecom for about $65,000,000.
Spacecom is buying a 9.3% stake in Nuran Wireless.
The deal is subject to Nuran Wireless and Spacecom agreeing on terms that would make Spacecom Nuran Wireless’s exclusive satellite capacity provider for future projects in Africa including 120 sites in Cameroon and 2,000 sites in Congo.
The $3,200,000 deal covers managed services contracts that Nuran Wireless has to extend French telco Orange’s mobile network in Cameroon and Congo.
The Spacecom purchase of a 9.3% stake in Nuran Wireless is a $3,200,000 deal.
On 2021-04-29, Nuran Wireless was still evaluating 3,000 potential locations in Congo.
On 2021-04-29, Nuran Wireless linked higher-than-anticipated population densities in planned deployment areas to increased deployment costs for its solar-powered wireless base stations.
Nuran Wireless plans to deploy 242 wireless tower sites in total in Cameroon.