Skyberry WiFi Adds Padel Player Taichi Kitao And Skier Kensuke Oguma To Support Program
The program's pitch is that a mobile WiFi rental is part of an athlete's overseas logistics, alongside travel and coaching, which is a narrower and more concrete claim than the usual sponsorship announcement.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
a2network Inc. has added padel veteran Japan national team player Taichi Kitao and alpine skier Kensuke Oguma to its Official Support Program, which provides the Skyberry series of communications services to athletes and artists competing overseas. Both receive Skyberry WiFi units for use at tournaments and training abroad. The program has supported overseas challengers since 2019; Skyberry WiFi itself launched in 2017.
Both athletes already use communications abroad for work that is not strictly competition. Kitao, who moved from tennis to padel, posts activity updates and gathers tournament and weather information from overseas events. Oguma, who skis for the Otaru Futaba High School Alpine Ski Team, keeps up with school classes and reviews practice footage during long trips.
That is the case a2network makes for the program: expeditions need a connection for local contact, logistics, and schoolwork, not only for sending results home. Skyberry WiFi is supplied to both under the arrangement.
- Taichi Kitao: padel veteran Japan national team player who moved from tennis and competed at the FIP SENIORS WORLD PADEL CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2024 and 2026
- Kensuke Oguma: alpine skier on the Otaru Futaba High School Alpine Ski Team, winner of the JOC Junior Olympic Cup, the National Junior High School Ski Championships, and the FIS Children Whistler Cup in Canada
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