Kacific adds Pak Datacom to its Pakistan satellite ecosystem

Details: John Tanner; Category: Satellite Networks; 07 July 2025; 5802 views

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group continued its blitz of deals to provide satellite broadband services to rural Pakistan last week via an MoU with public sector company Pak Datacom.

Under the MoU signed on Thursday, the two companies will leverage Kacific’s high-throughput satellite capacity and Pak Datacom’s ground infrastructure and national footprint to deliver satellite broadband across Pakistan, with a focus on underserved areas.

Kacific and Pak Datacom will collaborate to deploy VSAT terminals, establish ground stations, and provide critical broadband services to the education, healthcare, enterprise, and government sectors.

The MoU also calls for expanding takeup of Kacific’s retail and wholesale products (Gigstarter and FlexVNO) in Pakistan, co-development and co-marketing of satellite broadband services, establishing robust SLAs for data throughput, availability and latency, and joint training programs, technical workshops, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

“This collaboration with Pak Datacom allows us to combine our satellite innovation with a trusted local partner that understands the unique needs of Pakistan’s communities and institutions,” said Fahd Amin Malik, Sales Director of Kacific Pakistan, in a statement.

Pak Datacom CEO Brig. Syed Zulfiqar Ali said the partnership “supports the government’s vision of digital inclusion and complements our commitment to enabling critical communication infrastructure in rural and underserved areas.”

The Pak DatacomMoU is the latest deal in Pakistan secured by Kacific since it officially entered the Pakistan market in March 2025 via a partnership deal with satellite operator Paksat International and Pakistan’s national space agency, the Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO).

Under that deal, Kacific and Paksat are using 11 Ka-band spot beams on the Paksat-MM1 geostationary satellite to deliver high-throughput capacity for over 20,000 sites in remote regions for communities, businesses, government agencies, ISPs, and telcos, to include mobile backhaul and backup connectivity.

Last month, Kacific signed an MoU with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Telco Integrators (TI) under which PTCL will provide core telecoms infrastructure, including its terrestrial fibre cable network from Khyber to Karachi, as well as its access to international subsea cables, while TI will serve as Kacific’s local service enabler.

Also last month, Kacific signed on telecoms and data network service provider Supernet as an authorised reseller of its products and services.