08 November 2018

From left to right: Nexttel VP Moise Bay; Arik Zenouda, West Africa sales director for Gilat Telecom; and Nexttel chair, Baba Amadou Danpullo.

Gilat Telecom (formerly Gilat Satcom) has been chosen by Nexttel to provide 4G broadband services in Cameroon.

Part of Vietnam’s Viettel Group, Nexttel has operated in Cameroon since 2015 and is now said to have around five million subscribers which puts it ahead of Camtel but third after Orange and MTN.

Nexttel will be using Gilat Telecom’s fibre network both within Cameroon and across Africa in a bid to provide a fast and reliable broadband service.

Gilat says it was chosen after a competitive tender that included a number of established wholesale carriers in Africa.

CEO Dan Zajicek says: “We are investing heavily in our infrastructure across Africa and this is enabling us to win large customers like Nexttel.”

As well as its established wholesale business, Gilat Telecom says it has built data centres across the continent with both public and its own cloud services supported in its POPs in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia.

It also operates ISPs in Uganda and Zambia.