The cellular wireless industry is coming to a long-awaited realization that it cannot evolve and expand on its long-term business plans in the 5G era without the help of satellite services, according to keynote speakers from Globalstar, SpaceX, SES, and Intelsat, who spoke to a packed conference room on Sept. 29 at the SATELLITE @…

SES has teamed up with Kazakhstan's Republican Centre for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry, to bring high-speed connectivity services to businesses across Kazakhstan. SES announced the collaboration Sept. 30. The services will be delivered via O3b mPOWER, SES’s second-generation non-geostationary (NGSO) satellite system, and will…

Digicel is expanding its partnership with SES for disaster resiliency in Tonga throgh the O3b satellite constellation. The Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation will support connectivity in Tonga while the undersea communication cable is being repaired.  In January, Tonga experienced a volcano eruption and tsunami that damaged undersea communication links. Digicel utilized SES Geostationary (GEO) satellite…

Liquid Intelligent Technologies signed a multi-year deal with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the Konnect Satellite to support customers in Uganda, South Sudan, and the Eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under the agreement announced Thursday, Liquid will leverage capacity on the satellite to provide affordable internet services in territories underserved by terrestrial…