At the 13th European Space Conference on Wednesday, Gerry Collins, network and services policy expert for ESOA stated that the satellite industry needs to change its way of doing business in order to make the most of new 5G opportunities. "The satellite industry has a terrible habit of over-complicating things," he said, and the discussion…

Globalstar revealed Jan. 7 that business partner Nokia entered into an agreement with Tideworks Technology to deploy Globalstar’s Band 53 spectrum at the Port of Seattle, Terminal 5. This deployment is the second collaboration between Globalstar and Nokia at a U.S. Port. Globalstar’s Band 53 is a mid-band spectrum resource that the company offers partners for…

AST SpaceMobile rolled out two major announcements on Wednesday — the company is planning to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and plans to launch the first phase of a space-based commercial mobile communications service with Vodafone Group in 2023. New Providence Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, has…

The FCC began its 5G spectrum auction of the C-band on Dec. 8, auctioning off C-band spectrum that satellite operators are working to vacate. Up for grabs is spectrum in the 3.7–3.98 GHz band, prime spectrum for 5G services because of its geographic coverage and capacity. The FCC is auctioning 5,684 new flexible-use overlay licenses…