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 […]

Nokia has announced that it has maintained its role as Vodafone’s strategic partner in Europe and Africa as part of Vodafone’s five-year radio access network (RAN) investment programme. The deal follows Nokia’s recent RAN agreement with VodafoneThree, part of the largest privately funded telecommunications infrastructure project in Europe. The move supports Vodafone’s ambitions to deliver […]

Aprecomm, a provider of intuitive, self-healing network and customer experience solutions, has announced the launch of AIVRA (Aprecomm Intelligent Virtual Response Assistant), a continuously learning AI agent designed to transform how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) interact with their data. With AIVRA, Aprecomm says ISPs gain “real-time access to their entire operational ecosystem through a unified, […]

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 94 new exchange locations, covering 959,904 premises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business is giving Communication Providers […]

A report from analysts at CreditSights has looked at the prospects for satellite delivered ‘direct-to-device’ (D2D) telephony and broadband. The report says that for the new entrants – the likes of SpaceX’s Starlink, AST SpaceMobile and Amazon’s Kuiper – the promise of D2D is that satellite companies will be able to access a much larger […]

Non-geostationary orbiting satellite networks are routinely beaming their signals in areas reserved for geostationary satellites, and into each other’s signals as well, according to Kratos. The spectrum-monitoring service provider monitors signal interference at seven out of the 10 official International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) monitoring stations. The interference, according to Space Intel Report (SIR), is real […]