Bouygues Telecom, Free-iliad Group and Orange have submitted a joint non-binding offer to enter into negotiations with a view to acquiring a range of activities from the Altice group in France, but their offer has been immediately rejected. The offer covered most of SFR’s assets, but excluded stakes in Intelcia, UltraEdge and XP Fibre and […]
An academic paper, prepared in advance of an international conference on network and service management, suggests that Italy’s Piracy Shield causes significant collateral damage. In the paper, 90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield, the University of Twente researchers, Raffaele Sommese, Anna Sperotto, Antonio Prado, Jeroen van […]
Local reports in South Africa say that Communications Minister Solly Malatsi is poised to give a policy direction which will permit SpaceX’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system to operate in the country. Malatsi’s move will have to be approved by the nation’s regulator Icasa and will likely to require Starlink to invest in local businesses in order […]
Viasat, a specialist in satellite communications, has announced what it has called “an industry-first concept for business aviation that radically changes how in-flight connectivity performance is measured”, aligned with a report by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School. The report, titled Redefining In-Flight Connectivity in Business Aviation: What Really Matters to Private Jet Passengers, observes […]
RocketLab is the New Zealand and US rocket building company, founded and managed by Sir Peter Beck. Its Electron orbital rocket launches small satellites, and has launched 70 satellites as of August 2025; second only to SpaceX. It is developing its Neutron reusable vehicle which will carry larger payloads. Founded in June 2006, RockletLab has […]
SATLINE, an infrastructure provider for SATCOM businesses across Europe, has opened a new data center in the UK to deliver faster, more reliable satellite connectivity. Equipped with two new downlink antennas, the facility expands coverage and enhances performance for broadcast, IPTV and OTT clients. The site’s primary purpose is to ingest and convert satellite RF […]
Ericsson and Vodafone have announced a five-year strategic partnership to modernise Vodafone’s network footprint using Ericsson’s programmable network solutions across several markets. Ericsson will be Vodafone’s sole RAN vendor in Ireland, Netherlands, and Portugal, as well as a major vendor in Germany, Romania and Egypt. The modernisation of Vodafone’s RAN infrastructure and management will lay […]
AST SpaceMobile’s first of its second-generation BlueBird satellites is now on its way to the India rocket launch site at India Space Organisation’s Sriharikota/Satis Dhawan facility. The spaceport is located on an island off the east coast of India, surrounded by Pulicat Lake and the Bay of Bengal. The distance of Sriharikota from Chennai is […]
According to the NCSC’s latest annual review, the UK is facing an unprecedented rise in cyber threats. The organisation handled 204 nationally significant attacks in the past year, up from 89 in the previous 12 months. Of a total of 429 incidents handled, 18 were categorised as ‘highly significant’, meaning that they had the potential […]
Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar subsidiary) together with aircraft connectivity specialist Gogo, is celebrating key milestones in their partnership to transform the in-flight connectivity experience in the business jet market with the on-time delivery of both the Gogo half-duplex (HDX) and full-duplex (FDX) Aviation electronically steerable antenna (ESA) terminals. The pair say that the milestone […]