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Bank Agent–based Satellite Wi-Fi Trial in Africa
Lessons Learned for the Satellite Industry
Authors Caribou
With the support of
This report provides an overview of piloting wifi access via satellite across Kenya at selected Equity bank agent shops and schools. As part of the International Partnership Space Programme, the UK Space Agency designed a grant program to test out different business models that could deliver tangible economic benefits from the use of UK satellite technology to countries that currently do not maximize these benefits and to generate a bridge between the UK space sector and emerging countries. The UK Space Agency awarded a consortia of partners a grant for the I-Sat Connection Programme to develop and test the business case using satellites through an agent network model across Kenya. The consortia provided cached content wifi access to 200 agent sites in areas where there is both strong and poor 3G coverage.
Contributors Marissa Dean, Kishor Nagula
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