{"id":22491,"date":"2026-01-16T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-grants-satellite-permits-to-beetlesat-satelio-amazons-kuiper\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:28","slug":"nigeria-grants-satellite-permits-to-beetlesat-satelio-amazons-kuiper","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-grants-satellite-permits-to-beetlesat-satelio-amazons-kuiper\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria grants satellite permits to BeetleSat, Satelio, Amazon&#8217;s Kuiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria has issued seven-year satellite permits to Amazon&#8217;s Kuiper Systems, Israel&#8217;s NSLComm&#8217;s BeetleSat\u00a0and Germany based Satelio\u00a0IoT Services, joining Elon Musk owned SpaceX among operators cleared to expand space-based broadband, the telecoms regulator said on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it issued the permits under its commercial satellite communications guidelines, a licensing framework designed to draw investment into the sector.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The decision advances the regulator&#8217;s drive to open Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s largest telecoms market, to next-generation non-geostationary satellite systems, the NCC posted on its website.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Amazon&#8217;s Kuiper Systems won a seven-year licence to beam Ka-band services over Nigeria via its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper from February 2026 to February 2033.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NSLComm\u00a0gained similar clearance for its 264 satellite BeetleSat-1 network, while Satelio\u00a0IoT was approved for its planned 491-satellite IoT system, though only one satellite is currently in orbit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The NCC said the permits support its push to fast-track expansion of satellite broadband services and bring Nigeria in line with global best practices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22492,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-22491","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Nigeria has issued seven-year satellite permits","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25775,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22491\/revisions\/25775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}