Intelsat’s share price is riding high (at about $22 per share) helped by optimism over a financial windfall flowing from the restructuring of some of its C-band capacity over the US. However, Intelsat says it has no intention of extending the C-band policy to its Asian markets. The operator’s C-Band proposals for the US (made […]
Communications technologist Nokia has signed a €500 million loan transaction with the European Investment Bank (EIB), supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), a key element of the Investment Plan for Europe, also known as the Juncker Plan. Nokia will use the loan to further accelerate its research and development of 5G technology, […]
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 […]