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A licensed South African capacity trader.

OceanSky holds the I-ECNS and I-ECS licences that let international cable systems and satellite operators land, sell, and route capacity into South Africa under local law. Run by the team that helped launch SEACOM.

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OceanSky — capacity path, cross-sectionVertical cross-section. Sky band at top with a GEO satellite at 35 786 km, a faint MEO altitude marker, and a three-satellite LEO mesh at 550 km connected by inter-satellite links. Two downlink beams angle toward a coastal landing chamber at Yzerfontein (33.3° South, 18.2° East). A submarine cable dives from the landing into the seabed and runs out to deeper ocean, with a cross-section inset showing the cable's polyethylene jacket, steel armour, copper conductor and 16 fibre pairs. An interior tag marks the onward route to Teraco Johannesburg and Cape Town.SKYGEO35 786 kmMEO8 000–20 000 kmLEO550 kmSURFACEYzerfontein33.3° S · 18.2° EICASA · I-ECNS→ 2Africa · others→ Teraco JHB / CPTIP Transit · IPL · EoMPLS2Africa-class cable16 fibre pairs · POLYETHYLENE · STEEL · COPPERFIG. 00 · CAPACITY PATH
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Who we are

OceanSky is a South African telecommunications company licensed by ICASA to operate international electronic communications networks and services, with 100% historically disadvantaged group beneficial ownership.

I-ECNS
0196/IECNS/JAN/09
I-ECS
0196/IECS/JAN/09
Portrait of Suveer Ramdhani, Director of OceanSky.

Director

Suveer Ramdhani

Suveer was part of the founding team at SEACOM in 2009, the cable system that ended Telkom's monopoly on international bandwidth into South Africa and Eastern Africa. Over eleven years at SEACOM he served successively as Head of Product Strategy, Chief Development Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer, closing the acquisition of FibreCo and concluding the SEACOM African Ring strategy that took the company into terrestrial fibre across the continent.

He holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand, and has spent more than twenty years building, financing, and selling international bandwidth into and out of Africa.

OceanSky was acquired in 2026 as the licensed South African vehicle through which that experience is now being applied.

Read his profile in MyBroadband→

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What we do

We trade international capacity into and out of South Africa.

A subsea cable lands gigabits of capacity on a beach in Yzerfontein or Mtunzini.

A satellite constellation has gateway capacity it needs to sell into the local market.

Neither can lawfully trade that capacity in South Africa without an ICASA licence — which is the role OceanSky exists to fill.

We buy capacity from cable systems and satellite operators on Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) or lease terms, and we resell it to South African licensed operators, international carriers requiring South African termination, and enterprises that need diverse, SLA-backed international connectivity.

— Today we trade across

Submarine cable IRU and capacity resale
on the major systems landing in South Africa
International Private Line (IPL)
wavelength and Ethernet services, 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps
International Ethernet (EoMPLS)
point-to-point and point-to-multipoint
IP Transit
from PoPs at Teraco Johannesburg and Cape Town

OceanSky is successfully trading capacity on the 2Africa cable system, with further trades being structured across other landing systems. Each is approached as a discrete commercial transaction rather than a recurring service line, allowing us to direct capacity to where it commands the strongest return.

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Partners

For international cable systems and satellite operators

If you operate a subsea cable that lands on the South African coast, or a satellite constellation that wants to sell gateway capacity into the local market, you need a South African licence to do it lawfully. The Electronic Communications Act requires that anyone providing electronic communications network services or electronic communications services in South Africa holds an ICASA-issued individual licence.

OceanSky holds both — the Individual Electronic Communications Network Services licence (I-ECNS) and the Individual Electronic Communications Service licence (I-ECS). They were issued in 2009 and remain in good standing.

— Value

Our value to international partners rests on three things:

Legal route to market.
As a licensed counterparty, we conclude sales of capacity into South Africa under local regulatory cover.
HDG ownership.
100% historically disadvantaged group beneficial ownership, material to South African enterprise and government procurement.
Operator-grade structuring.
IRU agreements, capacity leases, and ECNS-to-ECNS interconnect, handled by people who have negotiated them on both sides of the table.

— Current partner

OceanSky trades capacity with Airtel Telesonic, the global wholesale arm of Airtel Africa.

Airtel Telesonic
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Acquisitions

We buy ISPs.

OceanSky is actively acquiring South African internet service providers and licensed telecommunications operators. If you own an ISP and are ready to exit — whether as a full sale of the business or a licence-only transaction — we are a buyer.

To start a conversation, use the form below and select Sell my ISP as the enquiry type. Suveer reads these directly.

— We are interested in

  • ISPs with an existing subscriber base, fixed or wireless
  • I-ECNS and I-ECS licence holders, with or without a customer book
  • Spectrum-holding operators considering consolidation

— What you can expect from us

A clean exit.
OceanSky acquires whole businesses for outright sale rather than providing funding or taking minority positions, so owners walk away with the transaction concluded.
A confidential first conversation,
held under NDA before any commercial information changes hands.
A process led by senior operators
who have closed telecoms acquisitions on both sides of the table.
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Get in touch

If you operate a cable system, a satellite network, or a carrier that needs to trade capacity into or out of South Africa, this is the form. We read every enquiry.

Sales desk
sales@ocean-sky.co.za

We use the information you submit only to respond to your enquiry. We do not send marketing communications.

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OceanSkyOceanSky Telecommunications (Pty) LtdRegistration number 2012/020536/07
ICASA licencesI-ECNS licence 0196/IECNS/JAN/09I-ECS licence 0196/IECS/JAN/09
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