The satellite industry, in particular SES (and its Intelsat subsidiary) and Eutelsat, is keen to see the next slice of C-band satellite spectrum auctioned off for use by US telcos and in particular 5G and expansion into 6G. SES would be happy to reversion 100 MHz – for a fee – and the FCC is […]
UK and Spain-based would-be satellite operator Open Cosmos won the rights to satellite frequencies from Liechtenstein in January. Now it seeks around $200 million (€169.6m) in fresh funding in order to build the satellite fleet and meet strict International Telecommunications Union launch obligations. Open Cosmos launched two of its small Ka-band low Earth orbiting satellites […]
Zipair Tokyo has operated Asia’s first commercial passenger flight equipped with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service as flight ZG045 from Tokyo (Narita) to Incheon, South Korea. The flight marked a milestone for inflight connectivity in Asia, introducing high-speed, low-latency internet access for all passengers, free of charge on Zipair. On Starlink-equipped aircraft, passengers in every […]
Technetix has announced its membership to The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP). ITP is the UK independent body for professionals working across telecommunications and digital sectors. Technetix employees at all career levels will benefit from access to ITP’s professional support programmes. These include mentorship, career coaching, seminars and networking opportunities. Maintaining skillset diversity at Technetix […]
Telefónica has reported a net loss of €4.318 billion for 2025, as the Spanish telco absorbed the accounting impact of disposals in Latin America, asset writedowns and the cost of a large-scale redundancy programme in Spain. The loss marks a sharp deterioration from the €49 million deficit recorded in 2024 and represents the company’s second-largest […]
Investments in transformative technologies are continuing to grow among enterprises, with analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) leading the way across all sectors. Sixty-six per cent of enterprise respondents are either currently investing in agentic AI (34 per cent) or planning to invest during the coming year (32 per cent), and several profound shifts are reshaping […]
Marika Auramo, the Vodafone Business CEO, has said that her company is ready to scale up activity through satellite connectivity. Vodafone has a partnership agreement in place with AST SpaceMobile. “2026 will be the year satellite connectivity transforms business resilience and growth. As the technology matures, we’ll see it move beyond niche applications into mainstream […]
Astrolight, a space and defence-tech company pioneering laser communication solutions across space, ground and maritime domains, is set to demonstrate its low-SWaP (size, weight, and power) ATLAS-1 laser communication terminals in space for the first time. The terminals will demonstrate high-bandwidth (up to 1 Gbps), secure space-to-ground links aboard two customer satellites, scheduled for launch […]
SpaceX’s Starlink direct-to-home broadband system has 524,863 users in Spain, ahead of longstanding operators such as Adamo and PTV. But in South Africa, Starlink has hit a roadblock. The Spanish data comes from APNIC statistics reported by Spanish web-site Banda Ancha, and converts into Spain’s sixth-largest ISP. Starlink does not release country-specific numbers but Spain’s […]
The West African state’s CRAN (Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia) regulator has licensed OneWeb (and via Q-KON’s distribution partners Echo Namibia, Oblixx Communication Networks (OCN) and RocketNet Namibia) to deliver Eutelsat’s OneWeb Business Broadband satellite connectivity services to Namibia. The examination and compliance has taken a year to complete. The new licence was issued on […]