The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will “headline” its intentions to make more intensive use of the C-band (3.7-4.2 GHz) spectrum frequencies at its July 12th meeting. FCC chairman Ajit Pai says that past victories do not guarantee success, and “Nowhere is this more evident than in our efforts to promote US leadership in the next […]
Vodafone UK has unveiled seven cities that will become 5G trial areas, with roll-outs starting between October and December this year. They form part of a major investment in building a world-class network infrastructure to support Gigabit UK, a proposed nation where people will enjoy ultra-fast connection speeds of one gigabit per second on the […]
Cable and radio broadcasters are formally asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for “much more information” on the Intelsat, Intel and SES proposals to restructure some of their C-band bandwidth for 5G services over the US. To date the FCC has made some extremely supportive noises about reallocating some of the satellite spectrum to speed […]
In January, a new company, US-based Swarm Technologies, launched 4 tiny satellites (‘Space Bees’) each barely larger than a slice of bread. The FCC told Swarm in December last year that they could not launch the satellites from the US until such time that the company had coordinated their transmission frequencies, and specifically that the […]
Eutelsat, speaking at an investment conference June 13th, said it would shortly start experimenting with a new small satellite technology with a view to launching a new LEO constellation of low-cost, narrow band, small satellites aimed at providing Internet of Things services. Eutelsat told delegates to the Exane/BNPP that its new generation craft would be […]
Commercial rollouts of 5G and larger than previously forecasted deployments of cellular IoT are focal points in the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. The forecast for cellular IoT connections has nearly doubled since November 2017. It is now expected to reach an estimated 3.5 billion in 2023, driven by ongoing large-scale deployments in […]
A study from Juniper Research found that increasing adoption of in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems by airlines and private aircraft operators will drive annual service revenues from an estimated $3.7 billion in 2018 to over $8.4 billion by 2023. The research found that systems installation by Low Cost Carriers is a driving force behind this […]
Independent research based on over 3,000 European subscribers on behalf of Openwave Mobility has found that 1 in 3 football fans (31 per cent) will watch the 2018 Russia World Cup using mobile data. This is nearly double the number of people that watched the 2014 Brazilian World Cup (17 per cent) using mobile data. […]
Charlie Ergen, co-founder of the EchoStar and Dish Network businesses in the US, has offered to buy Inmarsat, the London-based global satellite company. Inmarsat, in a statement after the market had closed on June 8th, said that it had received “a highly preliminary and indicative non-binding proposal from EchoStar Corporation in relation to the potential […]
Canada is funding a new initiative for its “Connecting Families” concept, aimed at providing low-cost Internet to many thousands of families in rural and isolated areas of the country. Canada’s Innovation Minister, Navdeep Bains, speaking last week at the Canadian Telcom Summit Toronto, said that the government would allocate C$100 million (€65.3m) in this year’s […]