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JetBlue chooses Project Kuiper

JetBlue is the first operator to select Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband system. The airline is already using Viasat’s geostationary satellites to serve its passengers, and Kuiper will not be fully active until 2027. The airline says it will start to roll out Kuiper in 2027 for about a quarter of its fleet with a phased […]

September 5, 2025By Chris Forrester

Report: Cisco’s lower prices lead to Wi-Fi 7 surge

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco, security, networks and data centre industries, enterprise class Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenue grew by double-digits for the second consecutive quarter in Q2 2025, confirming its emergence from the doldrums of 2024. “Cisco has kept its average Wi-Fi 7 AP price […]

September 5, 2025

CSG extends contract with Charter Communications

CSG and Charter Communications have signed a multi-year contract extension and expansion of their decades-long relationship. With this extension, CSG will continue as a revenue management and monetisation partner for Charter through to September 30th 2031, and will expand its support to include new areas of growth in Charter’s US business. “For more than 25 […]

September 5, 2025

SkyPerfect JSAT plans major expansion

Japan’s satellite operator, Sky Perfect JSAT, is to triple its investment in its fleet and which will include diversification into optical and radar observation satellites in addition to its core DTH broadcast services. Isao Kubo, the company’s CFO says that the past 3 years had seen it invest some $489 million (€419.7m) in its fleet, […]

September 4, 2025By Chris Forrester

Eutelsat brings all subsidiaries under one brand

Eutelsat Group has announced it will now be known simply as Eutelsat, bringing all its activities and subsidiaries under one brand.  Following its successful merger with OneWeb, which created the world’s first GEO-LEO operator, Eutelsat now operates as a single company. The LEO constellation will continue under the OneWeb name, highlighting its central role in […]

September 4, 2025

FAA allows increase in SpaceX launch cadence

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved SpaceX increasing launch cadence at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s SLC-40 to 120 Falcon 9 launches per year (up from 50/year) plus construction of a landing zone at SLC-40 and up to 34 first stage landings there per year. The full decision from the FCC says: · […]

September 4, 2025

BT, MainStreaming enhance UK video streaming delivery

MainStreaming, the Edge Video Delivery Network, has announced a partnership with BT Group to deliver high-performance, scalable and efficient video streaming across BT’s mobile and fixed networks nationwide. Through deep integration with BT’s network – leveraging on-net capabilities – MainStreaming will launch into the UK market with enhanced delivery capacity tailored for the UK’s largest […]

September 3, 2025

Project Kuiper readies for Sept 25 launch

The next batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites is slated for launch on September 25th from Cape Canaveral. The launch, dubbed KA-03, will be handled by United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V551 rocket depending on the usual weather and range approval permissions. “This launch continues a new chapter in the commercial launch industry as Amazon […]

September 3, 2025By Chris Forrester

ESA wants ideas, and urgently

The European Space Agency (ESA) is urgently seeking space industry ideas on its ‘intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance’ (ISR) project which calls for a European satellite constellation for military and civil usage. But ESA has set a September 30th deadline for ideas to be presented. This new constellation, called the European Resilience from Space (ERS) is […]

September 3, 2025

Report: Strong ROI for on-premise edge, private wireless adopters

Nokia has released its 2025 Industrial Digitalisation Report developed with GlobalData, which highlights that 87 per cent of on-premise edge and private network adopters are seeing a return on investment (ROI) in just one year while enabling AI-driven use cases. Additionally, 81 per cent of industrial enterprises found setup costs lower, with over half saving […]

September 3, 2025