DISH signed a multi-year agreement with a U.S.-based cloud services company it hopes will help advance its mission to launch a standalone 5G network. Altiostar is the developer of a cloud-native microservice-based Open RAN (O-RAN) solution designed to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning and enable 4G and 5G applications. DISH has obtained Altiostar's O-RAN…

Eutelsat has estimated its full cost to clear the C-band and relocate its U.S. customers at $170.9 million. Of that, $150 million is allocated for a single satellite replacement, and the rest for ground station activities.  Eutelsat, along with Telesat and Claro, formerly Star One, laid out their plans to relocate U.S. customers from the…

An appeals court has denied a request for stay on the FCC’s C-band auction brought by a group of regional satellite operators. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a motion to stay the C-band order in the case PSSI Global Services, L.L.C., vs. FCC. The court said the…

Intelsat and SES both filed their C-band spectrum transition plans with the FCC last week on June 19. The operators are working to meet the FCC’s accelerated clearing timeline to clear 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum for commercial 5G deployment by the end of 2021, and another 180 megahertz two years later. The operators will…