Eutelsat is joining the LEO club of Low Earth Orbiting satellite-owners. Having earlier dismissed LEO satellites, it has now ordered a small nano-satellite to tap into expected growth in demand from Internet of Things (IoT) operators. The satellite’s manufacturer is Tyvak International SRL, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation, a leading aerospace provider of nanosatellite […]
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, co-inventor of web-browser Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape, is putting cash into a new venture which intends building small geostationary satellites to provide a global broadband service. His investment, made by his Silicon Valley venture capital fund, Andreesson Horowitz, is going to satellite start-up Astranis and the projects second-round of financing. […]
A 5G test site for broadcasting is being set up in the Bavarian Oberland as part of the Bavarian research project ‘5G Today’. Under the leadership of the Institute for Broadcast Technology (IRT), project partners Kathrein and Rohde & Schwarz are investigating large-scale TV broadcasts in the Further evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (FeMBMS) mode […]
Greg Wyler (and SoftBank)-backed OneWeb, which is proposing to launch a massive constellation of 900 broadband satellites, used Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) to announce its ‘Seamless Air Alliance’ (SAA) for improved In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). The SAA concept brings together Sprint (also 85 per cent-owned by SoftBank), Delta Airlines, Airbus (an investor in OneWeb) and […]
Inmarsat is committed to using a network of ground-based repeater stations to augment its S-band in-flight capacity, and to boost connectivity for airline passengers. Eutelsat and ViaSat of California have their own plans for similar aircraft services, and had objected to the Inmarsat plan. France’s ARCEP (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes) […]
Huawei and Bouygues Telecom have announced a joint innovation programem to experiment 5G in France. Bouygues Telecom is part of the first operators worldwide to experiment 5G 3GPP in field with Huawei. Bordeaux will be the first city for a 5G network trial, from single site to multi-site coverage. With the release of industry’s first […]
Cisco and TIM, the leading service provider in Italy, have announced a major agreement aimed at accelerating Italy’s digitisation at Mobile World Congress. The two companies are engaged in developing a joint business and innovation programme. They will leverage their unique competences and technologies, to create next generation solutions and services focused in particular on […]
Intelsat has been selected by Gilat Satellite Networks, a global player in satellite networking technology, to support Gilat’s solutions to leading mobile network operators (MNOs) in the US as they accelerate their expansion of 4G wireless services to underserved areas across North America. Gilat will leverage Ku-band satellite services from two Intelsat satellites to enable […]
Karim Michel Sabbagh, President and CEO of satellite operator SES, has described 2017 as “an important year of transformation for SES,” as it reported revenue of €2.035 billion, down 1.6 per cent, declaring a dividend of €0.80 for 2017, a reduction of 40 per cent from 2016, which it says will allow a strengthening of […]
Despite the success of launch of two test craft for its intended 12,000 “Starlink” satellite broadband-by-satellite global coverage scheme on February 22nd, SpaceX is now cautioning that the deployment of the constellation and service commencement will take longer than first announced. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that these two prototypes, important as they are, […]