...a strategic partnership with systems integrator Kordia aimed at the implementation of O3b customer sites across the Pacific Ocean Region. A New Zealand-owned systems and support innovator, Kordia’s initial assignment is the installation of an O3b Tier-1 terminal in Rarotonga for Telecom Cook Islands (TCI). TCI will use O3b’s Ka-band capacity and fully-managed trunking solution, O3bTrunk, to provide businesses, residents and tourists with Internet access five times faster than current broadband offerings across the Cook Islands. TCI has also signed up high-speed, low-latency O3bTrunk service for four islands using the O3b Tier-2 terminals. As a result, each island will receive more than 20 times the bandwidth they enjoy today. O3b Networks will deliver fiber-like speed at sub 150 millisecond latency and affordable prices, opening the door to new business and growth opportunities for Pacific Island customers.

Kordia’s technical engineering teams are undergoing training for the installation, commissioning and maintenance of all varieties of Tier-1 and Tier-2 O3b terminals. The largest Ka-band operator in the world, O3b is enabling communications service providers to offer affordable fiber-like capacity around the world. O3b’s unique eight satellite, Medium-Earth-Orbit fleet enables affordable, high-speed connectivity in places where traditional satellite and fiber offerings are unavailable or extremely costly.