Taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, from November 20th through the 21st, is the 3rd West Africa Satellite Communications Summit (WASCS3). The organizers of the summit, GVF, have announced the high-level support and participation of major commercial organisations from both the satellite communications industry, and the oil & gas, financial services, and enterprise & distribution vertical markets. The Summit will be held at the Protea Hotel, Oakwood Park in the commercial capital. Associated with the conference are NIGCOMSAT as well as Schlumberger and Accelon.
WASCS3 is jointly organized by GVF and UK-EMP. The focus will be on the latest developments in the evolutionary deployment of satellite broadband networking to serve the leading commercial and enterprise verticals of the region. Major internationals from the oil & gas sector which are confirmed as organizing delegations for the Summit include: Shell, Total, Chevron Texaco, ExxonMobil, Agip, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Pan Ocean Oil Corporation (POOC), and Nigeria LNG.
A surge of new satellite capacity is stimulating growth in the information and communications technology (ICT) market across Africa as a whole, particularly after the successful launch of the Nigerian owned and operated NIGCOMSAT-1 geostationary satellite in May 2007. The West Africa region, in particular, is increasingly at the focus of state-of-the-art satellite-based communications, with broadband satellite services assuming an even stronger leading role in the regional socio-economic development agenda—Lagos, Nigeria & London, United Kingdom
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