Streaming has transformed how audiences consume film, television, and live events, but the industry faces a slowdown in new subscribers, high churn, and fierce competition. While exclusive content, bundles, and ad tiers help, they fall short on long-term engagement. The next phase lies in loyalty and rewards systems, adapted from retail and telecoms, to keep […]

The news that Scotiabank telecoms analyst Andres Coello had downgraded shares in AST SpaceMobile to ‘Sell’ surprised the market. On October 8th came the news that US cellular giant Verizon was firmly confirming it would start offering AST’s cellular service from space. AST’s shares surged 17 per cent as a result. “Through our definitive commercial […]

Scott Wisniewski, AST SpaceMobile’s (AST) president used a Bloomberg Businessweek TV interview on October 2nd to explain in some details how tests of its satellite to ground transmissions were going. Wisniewski said that AST’s signals would cope with “one wall” of a premises or inside a car. He told Bloomberg that a user simply would […]

There are widespread reports that US cellular giant Verizon Communications is negotiating to buy wireless spectrum from EchoStar. Reuters summed up the situation saying the discussions involve EchoStar’s AWS-3 licences, which are valuable for carrying 5G wireless signals. If the deal goes through, Verizon would join AT&T and SpaceX as recent buyers of EchoStar’s wireless […]

The US cellular businesses of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have had their market presence threatened if not actually dented by the recent moves by EchoStar and Musk’s Starlink. The move by EchoStar in selling off large chunks of spectrum to AT&T (for terrestrial) and Starlink (for satellite) has put the whole sector under the microscope. […]

US telco giant AT&T has updated its customers on the impact that satellite operator AST SpaceMobile (AST) will make when its communication services go ‘live’. AT&T told customers: “We’re working with AST SpaceMobile to one day offer a full suite of connectivity: voice, data, text, and video services in remote, off-grid locations. Our customers will […]

AST SpaceMobile (AST), a would-be supplier of direct-to-consumer cellular telephony from space, has told the FCC that it will have 243 of its BlueBird satellites in orbit by the end of 2028. The schedule will see 100 working in orbit by the end of next year, then 72 additional craft each year until 2028. AST […]

US mobile providers such as T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have been aggressively rolling out 5G home internet (also known as FWA, or fixed wireless access) over the past year. Penetration of the service has now reached 12 per cent, and more than half (56 per cent) of non-FWA subscribers are likely to consider the service […]

SNS Telecom & IT’s latest market research report predicts that service revenue associated with MCPTT and broadband PTT subscriptions over commercial mobile operator and critical communications broadband networks will surpass $12 billion by the end of 2028. MCPTT (Mission-Critical PTT) is an evolution of PoC or PTToC (PTT-Over-Cellular) technology aimed at meeting or exceeding the […]

AST SpaceMobile (AST) already has five of its BlueBird high-capacity broadband satellites in orbit, and has strong relationships with AT&T, Verizon and Vodafone each of which has stated that they want to start linking their existing cellular clients with AST. But AST needs far more satellites in orbit to provide a global service. The first […]