Mobile company Vodafone said on Monday it had ‌signed a deal with Amazon ‌Leo, the U.S. company’s low Earth orbit satellite network, ​to connect 4G and 5G mobile masts in remote areas in Europe and Africa. Amazon Leo will offer connections of ‌up to 1 ⁠Gbps for download and 400 Mbps for upload to link ⁠Vodafone’s network to masts in hard-to-reach locations, saving the expense of installing fibre, ​Vodafone said. Vodafone ​will start using ​Amazon Leo to ‌connect mobile base stations in Germany and other European countries this year before progressively rolling it out across Africa through its subsidiary Vodacom, it said.