Selling Satellite equipment for twenty five years.
New Era began operation in the year 2000, Originally we only intended to provide African customers with Satellite Internet and Telephony. At that time hardware and bandwidth suppliers were separate, leaving customers to work with two separate companies for the complete solution. We felt that we could do better!
New & Used Satellite Equipment Sales – our core business
Our early goal was to be the one-stop shop that would configure, sell, install and then operate the circuit for the client. We never really intended to get into the used equipment business, but we fell into it, because our customers were often in trouble.
When we sold a new VSAT package we tried to persuade the client to buy redundancy, sometimes they did, most times they didn’t. So, when their transceiver crashed, they found an eight-week delivery cycle and a pile of money for a replacement. It was the delay more than the cost that hurt the VSAT operator, if they were down for more than a week, all of their customers would move somewhere else.
More by luck than planning we had spare equipment at our teleport, half the price of new equipment and shipping the same week solved two major problems for our clients.
Twenty-five years later, with three full time salespeople, plus two highly qualified engineers in testing and repair we are still growing. Take a quick look at our inventory list page, it is always updated with new arrivals – Inventory List