Telesat deepens relationship with maritime broadband provider NSSLGlobal

OTTAWA and REDHILL, SURREY, UK – Telesat has expanded its agreement with NSSL Global in a move that sees the UK-based company contract a satellite transponder on Telesat’s Telstar 12 Vantage satellite.The additional capacity will allow NSSLGlobal to further enhance its VSAT IP@SEA, Cruise-IP and Broad-IP services, enabling the provision of even more robust mobile broadband availability to passenger and merchant vessels navigating the African, Mediterranean and Northern European waterways, reads the news release.The high throughput Telstar 12 Vantage, operating at 15 degrees West, provides superior coverage of Europe and Africa while bringing new capacity to high growth mobility markets...