Ibadan, 26 November 2024. – Rivada has announced securing the necessary market access for its Outernet constellation across the Nordic region, including Finland, Sweden and Denmark, bringing the total number of countries with market access to 20.
Success in obtaining the national rights to establish and operate a new satellite communications network in low earth orbit is important for the Nordic region, particularly in the light of increasing attacks on shared critical infrastructure.
As such, with persistent threats of sabotage of subsea communications cables, Rivada’s Outernet intends to provide a new and unique type of terrestrial-free connectivity and consequently, a future-proof solution for enterprise and government communications. Rivada’s 600 low Earth orbit satellite constellation moves data across a high capacity, ultra-secure and laser-linked satellite network in space, never touching the ground, ensuring high security and total protection from terrestrial fiber disruption.
In the digital economy, the security and resilience of communications are increasingly important to business users and private users alike. Furthermore, cable cuts can result in days and even weeks of disruption to business communications as they undergo repairs.
As a result, Ann Vandenbroucke, Rivada’s Chief Regulatory Officer, remarked that “Market access for the Nordic region is a priority in Rivada’s roadmap to ensure that the Outernet can mitigate valid concerns of accidents or even infrastructure weaponization with our resilient and robust infrastructure and the advantages of ubiquitous coverage, low latency, and flexibility.”
Likewise, Declan Ganley, Rivada’s CEO, said: “Unlike other satellite constellations, that partially depend on fiber interconnected ground stations, Outernet users will access our satellite network directly. We are now on an exciting path to ensure that the Outernet is available for the Nordic region, Europe and globally to solve essential secure connectivity and networking challenges and open up new business opportunities.”
