OneWeb, which is building a mega-constellation of 900 satellites, and had planned to launch its first batch of craft later this year, has reportedly slipped dates. OneWeb is working with satellite builder Airbus to build 10 debut satellites in Toulouse, but is also constructing – with OneWeb – a jointly-owned satellite factory in Florida to […]
China’s Huawei and ZTE have been banned from providing 5G technology with the Australian government citing national security concerns. “This is a extremely disappointing result for consumers,” Huawei posted on Twitter. Huawei is the world’s biggest producer of telecoms equipment. It also ranks second in global smartphone sales, behind Samsung and ahead of Apple. In […]
A senior official at Russia’s Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) says that the proposed OneWeb satellite mega-constellation is unlikely to be commercially successful. Yevgeny Buidinov, deputy director general at RSCC told Russian news agency TASS that he believed that the project to place some 900 satellites into orbit was perfectly realistic from a technical point of […]
Eighty-two per cent of mobile operators participating in a 5G study conducted by business information provider IHS Markit are busy trialling and testing the technology, mainly in North America and Asia, with 12 per cent — all from North America — planning commercial 5G rollouts by year’s end. “Get ready, 5G is around the corner,” […]
It cannot be denied that if you put three or four thousand passengers, and a near-similar number of crew, aboard a cruise ship they are going to want connectivity. A report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) says that “there are few satellite sectors that are seeing such record levels of a growth to a customer’s […]
Verizon has announced Indianapolis as the fourth city scheduled to receive 5G residential broadband service in the second half of 2018. The company previously said it would launch 5G in four cities this year, and Indianapolis joins Houston, Los Angeles and Sacramento as the first U.S. cities to get 5G service. Verizon will be the […]
A study from Paris-based Euroconsult says there is a significant expansion underway in the ‘smallsat’ market, both in terms of demand and systems’ capabilities. About 7,000 smallsats are due to be launched over the next ten years, i.e. a six-fold increase from the 1,200 units launched over the past decade. About 50 constellations, two of […]
In Flight Entertainment (IFE) business Gogo says it has a near-$1 billion of contracts waiting to be fulfilled, and which stretch over the next 10 years. The contracts cover installations into existing aircraft or new planes as they leave the factory, and service revenues. Other work ongoing is the installation of new de-icing transmission radomes […]
London-based Inmarsat has won approval from Belgium’s radio-communications regulator (BIPT) to install ground repeaters for its European Aviation Network (EAN), and providing crucial links for passengers and users of its in-flight broadband connectivity. France, Germany and the UK have already given permission for the repeater stations but Inmarsat needs about 300 of these ‘Complementary Ground […]
In-Flight Entertainment supplier Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) continues to expand its European presence, saying that it is now adding installations on LOT Polish Airlines, and during Q2 it completed installs on Norwegian’s 737 fleet. “Norwegian offers free WiFi and has one of the highest Wi-Fi Web browsing take rates of any airline globally,” GEE’s CEO […]