British companies developing satellite communications technology are to receive £30 million (€34.5bn) in government funding, Space Minister Liz Lloyd announced this week, as the UK looks to secure a larger share of a global market. The investment, the second round of funding from the UK Space Agency’s Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit (C-LEO) programme, will […]
Virginia-based Lynk Global and Smart Communications are expanding their direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity tests to Northern Coastal municipalities of Burgos, Bangui, and Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte – areas facing the West Philippine Sea. Lynk has also filed with the FCC for permission to start testing its transmissions over the Czech Republic. Burgos, as an example, […]
AST SpaceMobile used the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona to confirm the addition of two key Canadian partners – Bell and Telus – for its satellite-based cellular service. The news adds a potential 21 million connections for AST. “By combining Telus’ award-winning wireless network and AST SpaceMobile’s innovative satellite technology, we’re eliminating connectivity gaps […]
Speaking from the Space Comm Expo Europe event in London, Kevin French, the organiser of the conference dedicated exclusively to the satellite ground segment, has warned that the global success of data centres is at risk if barriers to their co-location with satellite ground stations are not removed. The advantages to placing a satellite ground […]
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and COO made a major presentation at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress (MWC) and showcased her company’s new name for Starlink’s Direct-to-Device offering. The new name – hardly a surprise – is Starlink Mobile. The aim is to deliver 5G speeds to mobile devices anywhere in the world. The technology will […]
SES is expanding humanitarian connectivity at the Farchana refugee settlement in Chad in cooperation with emergency.lu, the public-private partnership led by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade and the UN Refugee Agency. In the framework of the Connectivity for Refugees initiative, the deployment uses SES’ O3b mPOWER satellite […]
SES, releasing its full year results for 2025, says that it has won €1.8 billion of new business during the year. SES now serves more than 2 billion viewers and some 700 million homes with its signals. However, overall revenues fell back by -1.6 per cent (2024 like for like €3.65 billion. 2025 €3.51 billion). […]
Vodafone and Amazon Leo have signed an agreement to extend mobile coverage across Europe and Africa. The news emerged from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. This announcement is additional to the agreement with AST SpaceMobile also announced at the show. Vodafone will use Amazon Leo satellites to connect more remote mobile masts and […]
Deutsche Telekom is expanding its network coverage through satellite-based direct connectivity. In partnership with Starlink, Deutsche Telekom will bring mobile communications to areas where network expansion is particularly challenging, such as areas with nature conservation requirements or demanding topography. “We provide our customers with the best mobile network. And we continue to invest heavily in […]
The Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile joint-venture for European connectivity to its orbiting satellites has been officially opened. ‘Satellite Connect Europe’ is already investing in new ground stations in Germany, UK, Spain and France, all supported by a state-of-the-art control centre in Germany, a major satellite production facility in Barcelona, and test lab in Malaga, Spain. […]