Arianespace has confirmed that it will launch the first batch of 10 OneWeb satellites on February 19th, weather permitting. The satellites have been built by OneWeb’s satellite building partner, Airbus in Toulouse, and will be launched by a Europeanised version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket from Kourou in French Guiana. OneWeb has contracted 21 of these […]
Spain’s largest TV Association, UTECA, has set February as the deadline for the new DTT plan to be approved by the country’s government. The new DTT plan, initially scheduled for approval last December, is vital for the start of the second digital dividend in the country with the release of the 700 MHz band. DTT […]
SpaceX is planning to launch thousands of satellites into various orbits in order to deliver broadband services to the whole planet. The first satellites will launch later this year, but there are some growing doubts. The influential Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in its ‘Spectrum’ issue talks about glitches with both of SpaceX’s […]
The cumulative value of satellite-delivered broadband will be worth some $159 billion over the next 10 years, according to a report from Northern Sky Research (NSR). Video traffic will drive much of the growth. Over the next decade NSR says that satellite broadband and its related VSAT capacity traffic will grow at 13.4 per cent […]
Elon Musk was been busy tweeting over the holidays, talking about a visit to Boca Chica, South Texas to view construction on his ‘Starship Alpha’ space rocket, and telling fans that the overall Mars-focussed project had been “radically redesigned”. It has also emerged that since early December he has raised around $1 billion in fresh […]
Spain’s fourth largest telco Másmóvil and the Basque-country based Euskaltel have joined forces to implement a 5G pilot network, open to third parties. The 5G network will be set up over the next 30 months with a total investment of €12 million. Technology company Ericsson will provide the equipment in the pilot with participation of […]
The C-Band Alliance (of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) sent an email to the FCC on January 2nd which strongly rebutted allegations from US cable operators Comcast, Charter Communications and others that its plan to repurpose C-band spectrum over the US through a ‘market based approach’ was “improper and/or a departure from FCC precedent”. The […]
In June 2018, Kerrisdale Capital was firmly backing Intelsat, and in a research note to its hedge fund clients, forecasting the massive profits that it said would follow on from the restructuring of C-band spectrum over the US. It now emerges that Kerrisdale has largely cashed in on its profits and dramatically reduced its Intelsat […]
OneWeb, which wants to place at least 600 satellites into orbit and supply the planet with broadband service, has denied it wants Russia to take a stake in the business. Reuters reported the original story that the would-be satellite operator wanted to bring Russia into its scheme. Reuters said that that discussions with Russian prime […]
Various equity analysts have reported in some detail on how they see the C-band restructuring evolving over the US. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) closed its timetable for comments on December 11th on its ‘Notice of Proposed Rulemaking’ last week. The FCC is not likely to make a decision until mid-2019, but a consortium of […]