Telesat of Canada is trialling its first Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite ahead of launching a full global constellation starting in 2019. It has secured In Flight Entertainment (IFE) business Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) to collaborate with its LEO programme. The pair will work to optimise Telesat’s LEO constellation to serve growing broadband demands coming […]
Journalists were able to test SAS’s new Ka-band In Flight Entertainment and connectivity system from Copenhagen airport earlier this week. The signals come from the Eutelsat/ViaSat jointly operated Ka-Sat satellite. SAS says 7 of its aircraft are now equipped with ViaSat’s reception/transmission equipment, and its 82 spotbeams from Ka-Sat which cover Europe and the Nordic […]
FOX Sports, in cooperation with the Fox Innovation Lab and partners Ericsson, Intel and AT&T, will use 5G technology to stream 4K video over 5G for broadcast nationwide at this year’s 118th US Open Championship on June 14th – 17th. The 5G wireless technology will transmit 4K HDR images from two FOX Sports cameras positioned on […]
One market analyst described Eutelsat Q3 results, released May 14th, as “idiosyncratic”. They were best described as flat, with CEO Rodolphe Belmer explaining that Eutelsat’s extremely important Hotbird prime video slot was holding steady in terms of revenues and with a fill rate that was showing a modest growth helped by favourable renewals and new […]
Hopes are high that Paris-based Eutelsat will today (May 14th) unveil its Q3 results and perhaps, just perhaps, there will be a little top-line growth. That’s the view from equity analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP, who suggest that after seven consecutive quarter-year statements which reported declines, they expect today’s numbers to show a modest 0.3 […]
Speaking during a post-results call with industry analysts, Charlie Ergen (founder/chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar) is backing how satellite could help the deployment of 5G services. While initially focused on the US, he also said that combining Dish with EchoStar, “as they used to be” was also possible. Dish TV has just under 11 […]
Panasonic Avionics has agreed to pay some $280 million in an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in order to settle criminal and civil allegations over falsified bribery payments to Chinese and other Asian agents. The DoJ and Panasonic had agreed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement over the bribery allegations. Panasonic Avionics is a […]
Magnitude Space, recently renamed as Hiber Global, has received approval from the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands to launch a fleet of up to 50 small nano-satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) applications. Hiber has its R&D in Delft (Netherlands) and its HQ in Amsterdam. It was […]
The Burkina Faso government in west Africa has contracted with SES Networks for a batch of digital connectivity services including e-learning, e-government and e-health access for its citizens. The contract covers bandwidth on the SES-owned O3b satellite constellation. The agreement follows on a Luxembourg and Burkina Faso development cooperation project launched in 2017, which was […]
Over the past couple of years, social media giant Facebook has examined (and even contracted for) satellite capacity. Now a filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed plans that a probable Facebook subsidiary has for its own satellite constellation. The somewhat secret business, PointView Tech, wants a satellite which is new in concept […]