Connectivity

Telesat and ADN Telecom Limited signed a multi-year partnership on Tuesday, to deliver Telesat Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity solutions in Bangladesh and South Asia. ADN Telecom is a telecommunications...

Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has won a new deal with a major Norwegian shipping company. It will equip Solvang’s fleet with Inmarsat’s NexusWave fully managed bonded connectivity service to...

Viasat contracted Atlas Space Operations to provide support for ongoing and future NASA missions, Atlas announced on March 18.  Viasat, one of four companies selected for NASA’s near space network...

Verizon is expanding texting capabilities for Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 smartphones that allow customers with these phones to send text messages to any other customer device via...

Intelsat is supplying a multi-layer communication system (MLCS) to the Sheriff’s Office in Cochise County, Arizona to enable border security operations.  The MLCS combines Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service with...

Space42 and Viasat signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore ecosystem partnership options for developing a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) initiative, Space42 announced on March 11.  Space42 is a...

Bharti Airtel agreed to bring SpaceX’s Starlink internet services to customers in India, Airtel announced on March 11.  Airtel said this is the first agreement SpaceX has signed to receive...

Telesat signed new capacity agreements with Orange and Space Norway for Telesat Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity services, Telesat announced on March 11. Space Norway will incorporate a multi-Gbps capacity...

SATELLITE 2025 kicked off with a bang with a standing room only multi-orbit panel where executives from Intelsat, Eutelsat, Viasat, and Paradigm debated the future of satellite broadband.  One of...

SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh kicked off SATELLITE with the announcement on Monday that the operator is working with Lynk Global on direct-to-device (D2D) service offering.  Under the strategic partnership announced...