Eutelsat, speaking at last week’s ITU Global Symposium for regulators in Ankara, Turkey, pledged to connect an additional 2 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.

The pledge was made under the International Telecommunication Union’s Partner2Connect Digital Coalition, the same framework under which Eutelsat made, and surpassed, its first connectivity pledge.

Eutelsat’s renewed commitment follows the successful delivery of its original Partner2Connect pledge, which it submitted in June 2022: to connect 1 million underserved people in Sub-Saharan Africa to reliable satellite internet by 2027. The company reached that milestone two years ahead of schedule, with more than 1.3 million users connected as of June 30th 2025.

That first target was delivered primarily through Eutelsat’s Konnect Wi-Fi hotspot service, powered by the Eutelsat Konnect high-throughput satellite, a new-generation platform positioned at 7° East that provides broadband speeds from 5 Mbps to 100 Mbps to rural areas beyond the reach of terrestrial networks. The service has connected individuals, schools, businesses, and healthcare centres across Sub-Saharan Africa, where fixed and mobile infrastructure remains limited or absent.

The next phase, running through to 2030, will draw on both Eutelsat’s GEO satellite fleet and its OneWeb LEO constellation, whose capabilities were combined following the merger of Eutelsat and OneWeb in 2023, making Eutelsat the first fully integrated GEO-LEO satellite operator.

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