Connectivity

Intelsat and the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC) of Myanmar have broadened their relationship to accelerate the deployment of wireless communications infrastructure in Myanmar. The MOTC will use services […]

Sprint has announced that it is ready for the 2018 hurricane season ahead of subtropical storm Alberto and what is predicted to be another active season. In preparation for the […]

Yahsat has announced that its third satellite Al Yah 3, located at 20 degrees West, has successfully completed its in-orbit testing and is ready for commercial services. The satellite will […]

Intelsat has appointed Juan Pablo Cofino as regional vice president of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cofino will be responsible for the development and implementation of Intelsat’s sales and regional […]

SES will be broadcasting an 8K television signal via its satellite system for the first time during its annual SES Industry Days, taking place today and tomorrow in Luxembourg. Relying […]

Iridium Communications successfully launched five Iridium Next satellites aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California yesterday. The Iridium satellites were joined by the twin spacecraft […]

Kudelski Group, a provider of digital security, and u-blox, a Switzerland-based global player in positioning and wireless communication technologies for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, have announced the signing […]

It is not often in this day and age, that someone leads for over 20 years, but David Hartshorn can say he did exactly this. He has led the Global […]

Could the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) bandwidth replace Wi-Fi as the world’s common connectivity link? According to Preston Marshall, head of access for Google and director of the CBRS […]

Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot Group is set to deploy an Internet of Things (IOT) solution for fuel monitoring from Orange Business Services. The solution helps to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and […]

Honeywell is collaborating with AT&T to use the Internet of Things (IOT) for a range of solutions intended to help companies improve productivity, reliability and asset performance. Honeywell is working […]

Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider SatADSL and Camtel, Cameroon’s national telecommunications provider, have announced a new partnership to provide satellite connectivity across Cameroon. The formal agreement follows a pilot launch […]

Eutelsat has joined other members of the satellite community in signing contribution agreements with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC). These […]

Cobham Satcom’s Explorer 8100 Auto-Acquire, Drive-Away Antenna System, with its Dynamic Pointing Correction technology, has been installed on the U.K.’s broadcast solutions provider Timeline TV’s new 4K-uplink RF2 broadcast truck. […]

SES and Hispasat, along with other members of the satellite community, have signed a contribution agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications […]

A new distribution contract between Telekom Srbija and SES Video has launched a new TV package across Europe via the orbital position 23.5 degrees east. Under the new multi-year agreement, […]

SpaceX successfully launched the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on Friday from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, the Falcon 9’s first stage […]

Thaicom has announced an agreement with Mediavision, a European-based content delivery specialist providing end-to-end solutions to the broadcast and media industry, for the expansion of its broadcast platform in Africa. […]

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has been getting a lot of hype. What does it really mean for the satellite industry?

The Streaming Video Alliance, an industry forum that aims to improve the video experience, announced Google as its newest member during an event hosted by principal member Viacom. Other alliance members […]

Scalable Network Technologies, a provider of multi-domain network design and optimization tools, has been supporting the high-fidelity undersea communications and networking simulation/emulation tool developed for the Forward Deployed Energy and […]

It has not been a good week for Dish Network. The satellite TV company’s shares plunged after it reported losing 94,000 Pay TV subscribers in its first financial quarter of […]

Professional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider SatADSL, Global Telesat, a provider of telecommunication services in rural and challenging locations, and satellite operator RascomStar have announced a new partnership to […]

Eutelsat Communications and TVN, a broadcaster in Poland and part of Discovery, have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement, renewing capacity at the Hotbird position. This renewed capacity will support TVN’s […]

Inmarsat has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in conjunction with Tillman Digital Cities and CivicConnect, to accelerate the development and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) […]

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development at its 2018 spring meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on Sunday and Monday, committed to concrete actions that will advance the roll-out of broadband around […]

Telefonica’s wholesale business unit, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, has completed the final stage of the automation and simplification of all its operations across some of its most demanded services, including […]

At the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Summit in London last week satellite should have been front and center but it was only mentioned a handful of times, even though the event focused on bringing connectivity to rural and underserved communities across the globe...

Intelsat CEO Steve Spengler details pilot program to connect remote areas – Bufundi in Rubanda & Kibuku in Ntoroko – in Uganda. Partnering with MTN & @GilatSatNet, the project will […]

APT Satellite successfully launched the Apstar-6C into orbit with the Long March-3B (LM-3B) launch vehicle today from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province of China. Both the satellite and […]