Passengers on airlines travelling over North America on jets equipped with Global Eagle Entertainment’s in-flight equipment will shortly get an even better experience. Global Eagle has tripled its Ku-band capacity on the SES-15 satellite and in particular the craft’s high-throughput beams to enable the delivery of high-speed broadband and a wide range of inflight communications […]
S&P Global Market Intelligence has released its latest State of European 4G report. Key highlights from the report include: Mobile subscribers and 4G penetration are growing across the European continent, but substantial regional differences exist across the 15 countries analysed Kagan, a unit within S&P Global Market Intelligence, estimated 4G subscribers for 14 of 15 […]
SES has announced that the new SES-15 spacecraft has been operational at the 129 degrees West orbital position since January 1st. As planned, the all-electric satellite took six months to reach its orbital position and to successfully complete its testing. SES-15 carries a hybrid payload, comprising Ku-band wide beams and Ku-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) […]
A test satellite for Canadian operator Telesat was successfully orbited on January 12th. The satellite was built by UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL). The Low Earth Orbiting LEO-Phase 1 craft is the first component of what will become a constellation of Telesat satellites designed to revolutionise broadband connectivity around the planet. The Telesat LEO Phase […]
China is accelerating 5G development and hopes 5G will become an engine for the country’s new industrialisation and digital transformation, replicating its industrial policy that produced success in 4G, concludes Strategy Analytics in the report “China Government Sees 5G as an Engine of Industry Development, but Will Operators Have Enough Fuel?” The report also points […]
Troubled specialist satellite operator Avanti used the Christmas break to issue its slew of bad news contained within its end-of-year results. December 27th saw the statement unveiled, for its trading year to June 30th. Revenues for the year were just $56.6 million (€47m), down a dramatic $26.2 million on the already worrying 2016 revenues of […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has published its annual predictions looking at the content delivery and security trends in media and entertainment for 2018. The e-book, Disruptive Technologies, Consolidation and Cybersecurity: 2018 Trends in the Connected World, features commentary from multiple Irdeto and industry thought leaders. Topics include the growing competition from OTT […]
The French government is backing new measures to help boost broadband take-up in the country. The new initiative includes funding €150 per home to equip satellite or 4G reception. The intention is to reduce the number of households with low-quality (or zero) internet access from today’s typical 15 per cent to just 6 per cent […]
On December 14th, we reported on a fascinating test, the ‘SATis5’ project, being run by satellite company SES, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Fraunhofer IIS, Newtec, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Bundeswehr München and the European Space Agency (ESA). The SATis5 project is designed to demonstrate how satellites can be used in the growth and management of 5G […]
A Lausanne, Switzerland-based start-up business Astrocast has raised $4.16 million in extra funding in order to build a planned constellation of 64 mini-satellites to serve the growing Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things demand for connectivity. Astrocast says that thanks to its polar orbits, “our network of nanosatellites covers and scans the entire surface of the […]