Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group plc (LON:SAT) has landed a contract with the Norwegian government worth about £0.5mln to build a new fixed wireless network in the country.
The network, which will be built over the next 15 months, will deliver broadband up to 75 megabytes (Mb) to the county of Sør-Trøndelag.
Satellite will operate and maintain the network under a 10-year contract.
The company said it will offer a range of tariffs across the municipalities of Agdenes, Bjugn,and Midtre-Gauldal in Sør-Trøndelag, where hundreds of households are currently limited to broadband speeds below 4Mb.
“Our solution will connect these households to uber-fast broadband speeds for the first time, despite their distance from a major telephone exchange and the challenging topography of the area,” said chief executive Andrew Walwyn.
"Norway has significant Government funding available for investment in broadband infrastructure each year and we hope to deliver uber-fast fixed wireless broadband to many more Norwegian customers. In addition, we intend to utilise these fixed wireless networks, as a complement to our satellite technologies, across many other European territories in the future."