Dish Mexico Selects Gilat and Hispasat for Delivery of High-Quality Broadband Services to the People of Mexico

Gilat’s multi-service platform operating over Hispasat’s Amazonas-5 HTS satellite was chosen to help bridge the digital divide in Mexico

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, announced today that Dish Mexico has chosen Gilat’s SkyEdge II-c multi-service platform, operating over Hispasat’s HTS satellite, Amazonas-5, to deliver high-quality broadband services in Mexico.

Mexico will be connected with ON, a new high-quality satellite Internet access service, to benefit the unserved and underserved people of Mexico. This service will include high speed broadband connectivity over satellite as a solution for remote regions where terrestrial service is not available. The broadband service will utilize Gilat’s highly efficient X-Architecture and DVB-S2X VSATs operating over Ka-band capacity from Hispasat’s recently launched Amazonas-5 satellite.

Source: Gilat media announcement