Regions | We Design for the Country | Africa, Pacific, Southeast Asia

Where we work

Programmes shaped country by country.

We focus on the regions racing to connect the unconnected, building mobile-first programmes in partnership with national operators. Country pages are added with each engagement.

AF

Africa

Vast distances and sparse fibre make a mobile-first satellite layer the practical way to reach communities towers cannot pay for. We work through national operators to extend coverage while the country keeps sovereignty over its network.

PI

Pacific Islands

Island nations separated by ocean depend on a handful of undersea cables that can be cut and slow to repair. A sovereign satellite layer adds an independent path that holds when those cables fail, keeping remote communities connected.

SEA

Southeast Asia

Scattered islands, highlands and remote districts leave many communities beyond the reach of terrestrial networks. We design connectivity around each country's operators and coverage map, so the network answers to the nation, not a foreign provider.

A man using a mobile phone in a rural area, the citizen each regional programme is designed to reach

Built around the nation

Every country starts from its own map.

There is no off-the-shelf service. Each programme is designed around the country's coverage map, its mobile operators, its regulatory framework and its development priorities, whether that is rural health, schools or agriculture. We are the layer beneath your institutions, the opposite of the domineering giants. National operators deliver the service, the government holds sovereignty and communities get connected.

Mobile-first. Citizens connect through their own operator on ordinary devices.
Cable resilience. An independent path that holds when undersea cables fail.
Sovereign by design. The network answers to the nation, not a foreign provider.

Common questions

About the regions.

OrbIQ works with nations that are building out connectivity and want to do so sovereignly, with a particular focus on Africa, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia, alongside developed nations seeking a resilient fallback layer.

Each programme is designed around the country's coverage map, its mobile operators, its regulatory framework and its development priorities such as rural health, education and agriculture, rather than a fixed off-the-shelf service.

Through them. OrbIQ is the infrastructure layer beneath a country's own institutions. National mobile operators deliver the service to citizens and the government holds sovereignty over the network, while OrbIQ designs, builds and operates the constellation to the nation's standard.

We design for the country.