Eurona takes another step in its international expansion with the entry into Portugal

Eurone, the company that is an expert in connectivity services and solutions for rural and remote areas, has taken another step in its international expansion plan with the entry into Portugal. The goal is to grow in the residential market and bring its satellite Internet service to places without connection. 

 

Eurona's growth strategy in the Portuguese market, which seeks increase your customer base with a 100 Mb satellite connection, does not start from scratch but relies on the market strength of other already consolidated operators with whom it maintains close collaboration

 

This is the case of Eutelsat, the French telecommunications company that has 39 communications satellites, and with whom it signed an agreement last June, by which it transferred to Eurona more than a thousand clients in Iberia. 

 

Eurona's entry into Portugal is part of the company's international expansion plan, which has more than 40.000 clients in Latin America, Africa and Europe, where the neighboring country is now joining Spain, Italy and Ireland.

 

Thus, Eurona wants to replicate in the neighboring country the strategy it has carried out in Spain, where it is the first operator in Spain to offer 100 megabytes of satellite internet. Its objective is to bring connectivity to rural, isolated and remote areas of Portugal, thus reducing the digital divide that continues to act as a brake on economic and social progress. 

According to Fixed Broadband Report: Connectivity in the OECD Metric, prepared by the consulting firm The Competitive Intelligence Unit, 18,7% of the Portuguese population, almost two million people, do not have 100Mbps Internet access. This digital divide not only affects individuals in the neighboring country, but also small and medium-sized businesses.

A context of opportunity

Eurone It is confident that its expansion strategy in the Portuguese country will be favored by the fact that Portugal is one of the countries with the best frequencies in the speed range with more than 100 Mbps, similar to those of Spain, and only behind Sweden and Belgium in Europe.  

According to CEO of Eurona, Fernando Ojeda, “our entry into Portugal also occurs in an optimal context since the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) developed by the Portuguese Government will allocate 15% of these funds, a total of 2.460 million euros, to the digital transition.”