Expanded internet access is coming to rural customers throughout Mexico over the next three years thanks to thousands of new Wi-Fi hotspots.
Broadband satellite networks and services provider Hughes Network Systems has announced that it will deploy Hughes Express Wi-Fi Hotspots powered by Facebook Connectivity’s Express Wi-Fi platform, in as many as 4,000 rural communities in Mexico in collaboration with Telecomunicaciones de México (TELECOMM).
TELECOMM, a decentralized body under the Mexico Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, works to make telecommunications services available through programmes and infrastructure from the Mexican government and third parties.
The first Hughes Express Wi-Fi hotspot under this initiative was installed by TELECOMM in the small town of General Sandino in the southern region of Mexico, where there was previously no high-speed internet.
Hughes Express Wi-Fi makes affordable, high-speed internet access available to people in rural communities at prices as low as 10 pesos ($0.50 cents) per hour. The solution leverages the Hughes JUPITER System, the next-generation VSAT platform designed and optimized for broadband services, using Ka-band capacity from the JUPITER 2 (EchoStar XIX) high-throughput satellite to deliver internet service to the locations that were selected from the Federal Government Connectivity Programme and the Social Coverage Programme. At each site, Facebook Connectivity’s Express Wi-Fi platform enables local managers to operate the system and make Wi-Fi available on handheld and laptop devices.
In Mexico, Hughes offers several ways for consumers to connect to the internet including HughesNet, a subscription-based, high-speed satellite internet service.
