Telenor Group has revealed details of its expanded 5G piloting in Norway. The next generation pilot will be carried out by Telenor Norway in partnership with Ericsson and will complement the mobile operator’s existing 5G pilot in Kongsberg.  “It’s important for Telenor to continuously expand our knowledge and experience through actively testing the 5G technology […]

A European Space Policy conference, organised by Business Bridge Europe, created something of a stir last week when the European Digital Economy Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said the commission was fully backing the deployment and use of high-throughput satellites for the remotest regions of Europe in order to fill the much criticised broadband digital divide. However, […]

The proposed realignment of some C-band frequencies over the US in order to boost 5G take-up has seemingly “lost lustre” these past few months as investors saw the FCC withdrawing into its ivory tower as reason to take profits after an electric year of out-performance [by the two main backers of the scheme: Intelsat and […]

OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb, has announced the delivery of the first satellites for the OneWeb constellation. The satellites were manufactured at the OneWeb Satellites facility on the Airbus Defence and Space Toulouse site and the first six have been shipped to Kourou for launch.  The first launch of the mega […]

OneWeb, the proposed super-constellation of 600 satellites, has surprised the market by dramatically cutting back on its planned launch of 10 satellites next month. Founder Greg Wyler now says that only 6 craft will be launched. Wyler, in a Tweet, says: “We built 10 in the factory per our plan and are launching 6. These […]

Stéphane Israël, CEO at rocket company Arianespace, says that his Ariane 5 rockets will launch at least 5 missions this year, with each launch carrying two satellites. Israël stresses that the overall Arianespace launch count will be much higher thanks to its smaller Vega rocket as well as the use of a ‘westernised’ Russian Soyuz […]

Astranis Space Technologies, building the next generation of telecommunications satellites to bring the world online, and Pacific Dataport (PDI), a company created for Alaskans by Alaskans to bridge the state’s digital divide, have announced a signed agreement and commercial partnership to construct and launch the first-ever commercial Astranis satellite to dramatically increase bandwidth in Alaska […]

Konnect Africa, an initiative of the satellite operator Eutelsat dedicated to satellite broadband on the African continent, has announced the launch of its Internet access offers in Côte d’Ivoire. According to Deloitte’s TMT 2017 report, the country has 9 million mobile Internet subscriptions, notably thanks to the 4G network. Some areas of Ivorian territory, however, […]

London-based Inmarsat is moving its European Aviation Network (EAN) division out of London, and will relocate to satellite-friendly Luxembourg. The shift will happen before April, and the decision has been made because of the threat of Brexit to Inmarsat. Inmarsat has a European Commission licence to operate its EAN service on S-band within the European […]