Sky and Space Global, a New Space UK company listed in the Australian Stock Exchange, has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Pearls satellite, which now allows the company to immediately proceed with assembly and integration of the nano-satellite network, the company announced. The CDR process was undertaken by global aerospace construction partner […]
SES saw its Video division revenues continue to be under pressure and fell back to -2.8 per cent, although its Networks segment grew impressively by 13.6 per cent in the nine months to September 30th. Its Q3 2018 underlying revenue of €317.5 million was 3.8 per cent lower (year-on-year) at constant FX. Video distribution revenues […]
Openwave Mobility’s Mobile Video Industry Council (MVIC) meeting in London, which included Tier 1 mobile operators Deutsche Telekom, EE, KPN, MTS, Orange, Telefonica, Telus and Vodafone, expect that up to 90 per cent of 5G traffic could be mobile video. This projection is based on current trends and the upward trajectory of mobile video traffic, […]
Vodafone has become the first company in the UK to carry full 5G over a commercial network. Live mobile data traffic is now being streamed to and from the Internet exclusively over 5G from a site in Salford, Greater Manchester, connected to Vodafone’s nationwide converged fibre network. Until now, companies have tested the technology either […]
A series of comprehensive tests using In Flight Communications supplier Global Eagle, and with Canada-based Telesat’s Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and its ANIK F3 geostationary satellite, provided the “shortest-ever connection time” for the round-trip from the aircraft to the associated ground equipment. A statement from technology provider Gilat Satellite Networks said that […]
Sky Italia, as reported yesterday, is to add fixed-line broadband as well as a mobile product in the Spring of 2019, according to equity analysts at Deutsche Bank, quoting Italian sources. “The fixed broadband aspect was known – Sky signed an agreement with Open Fibre in March to provide fibre to the home (FTTH) – […]
The drive to see a speedy adoption of 5G technology in the US has seen the C-Band Alliance (CBA) increase the amount of downlink spectrum they could free up. The CBA’s initial proposal was to make available 100 MHz of C-band spectrum. Now the consortium of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat are offering 200 MHz […]
Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom have entered into a cross investment agreement to further strengthen their competitiveness in 5G and deepen their cooperation in the global market. Under the agreement, SK Telecom plans to invest in MobiledgeX, an edge computing company founded by Deutsche Telekom and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, focused on delivering developer-facing […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) is talking with the FCC over proposals to use satellite’s C-band frequencies to help boost take-up and deployment of 5G cellular, but the plan is not going down well with some satellite operators. CBA is made up of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat. The concerns are coming from Hispasat of Madrid, […]
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) says that its studies show that satellite-based Ka-band is much more robust and less affected by tropical rain-fade than previously anticipated. The ITU’s studies remove a significant issue which has seen satellite operators and telcos favouring Ka-band, and its ‘spot beam’ technology over more conventional C-band and Ku-band spectrum (at […]