Connectivity
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Finance
T-Mobile and Sprint Complete Merger, Promise 5G Gains
T-Mobile completed its merger with Sprint Corporation, the wireless company announced Wednesday. The new combined parent company T-Mobile US, Inc., will operate under the name T-Mobile. The new T-Mobile has […]
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Connectivity
Danish Operator Sternula Leads LEO Maritime IoT Project
Danish satellite operator Sternula is leading a consortium that plans to develop a network for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites delivering ice chart data to ships at sea. According to a […]
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Finance
Myriota Expands into Canada With exactEarth Assets Acquisition
Myriota Canada, a Canadian subsidiary of the Australian Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite connectivity company Myriota, plans to acquire satellite assets from exactEarth Ltd. for about $422,000. A portion of […]
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Finance
Viasat and Visiontec Expand Brazilian Partnership
Viasat and Visiontec have expanded their partnership working to bring reliable internet service to residential homes in Brazil. Visat said in a March 31 release that it plans to reach 100% […]
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Government/Military
FCC Debuts $200M Telehealth Program
The FCC has proposed a $200 million program to support health care providers’ use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission announced March 30. Congress appropriated the $200 […]
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Finance
AXESS Networks, METelecom Partner in Saudi Venture
AXESS Networks (AXESS), has signed a joint venture agreement with the Saudi Arabian communications provider Middle East Telecommunications (METelecom) to provide end-to-end managed satellite communications solutions for customers operating in […]
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Connectivity
Lynk Co-Founder Says Satellite-to-Cell Tech Will Be ‘Bigger than 5G’
Startup Lynk Global recently hit a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) milestone by sending a message from a satellite directly to a cell phone on Earth — and one of the company’s co-founders […]
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Government/Military
FCC Eases Rural Health Care Program Bidding Requirements, Extends Filing Window
The FCC has taken steps to assist participants in its Rural Health Care Program as part of its work to ensure that hospitals and health care providers have the resources […]
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Connectivity
Globalstar 5G Variant Band Receives 3GPP Approval
The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has approved the 5G variant of Globalstar’s Band 53, which will be known as n53, the mobile satellite operator announced March 23. Globalstar said […]
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Connectivity
ViaSat and fuboTV Execs Say IFC Partnership was Years in the Making
The video streaming distribution and technology partnership Viasat announced with fuboTV in February had been four years in the making, and shows Viasat’s In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) ambitions. Cristina Arango, director […]
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Connectivity
Eutelsat’s Konnect Africa To Provide Internet for 3,600 Schools
Konnect Africa, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, Schoolap and Flash Services has committed to providing high speed internet to several thousand schools across the Democratic Republic of Congo as part […]
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Connectivity
CNBC: SpaceX Gets FCC Approval for 1M Starlink Antennas
SpaceX got a key government license last week, federal filings reveal, as the company clears a regulatory hurdle that moves it closer to offering a new high-speed internet service from […]
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Connectivity
Dish Lends AT&T Spectrum for Coronavirus Response
DISH Network is providing 20 MHz of AWS-4 and all of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T at no cost for 60 days in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last […]
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Connectivity
SatSignature Deploys Cloud-Based Satellite Spectrum Monitoring Service
SatSignature has deployed what it calls the world’s first spectrum analyzer-in-the-cloud service, offering constant global satellite spectrum monitoring, recording, and analysis in web-based subscription packages. The company, which announced the […]
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Connectivity
Startup Lynk Claims First-Ever LEO to Cell Message
Lynk Global said that it has reached the first-ever milestone of successfully connecting a satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to a mobile phone on Earth, and has sent a text […]
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Connectivity
DISH Lends T-Mobile Spectrum for FCC’s Coronavirus Initiative
DISH Network is providing its entire portfolio of 600 MHz spectrum to T-Mobile at no cost for 60 days, the company announced Monday, in response to the spread of COVID-19. […]
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Government/Military
Hughes to Support Satcom for U.S. Army’s Gray Eagle UAV; Partners with OneWeb
Hughes Network Systems has received a Data Link Modernization (DLM) contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to provide advanced satellite communications systems for the U.S. Army‘s MQ-1C Gray Eagle […]
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Connectivity
Speedcast Launches Standardized SD-WAN Solution
Speedcast International Limited has launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that it said blends satellite, LTE, wireless, and fiber technologies. The solution is designed for onshore and offshore […]
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Connectivity
Spacebridge Delivers Backhaul Solution to African MNO
Spacebridge has delivered a solution for 2G/4G mobile cellular backhaul over satellite network to a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Africa. The company said the solution will service unserved remote […]
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Connectivity
Arabsat Uses Atos’ Satellite Monitoring Solution
Arabsat is using Atos’ satellite monitoring solution to mitigate interferences in its satellite services, the satellite operator announced Thursday. Atos SkyMon carrier monitoring system (CMS), is operational at Arabsat’s ground […]
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Connectivity
How Can Satellite Operators Invest to Differentiate Themselves in an Open 5G World?
5G over satellite is coming. Last December, the satellite and telecoms industries, through the overarching 3rd Generation Partnership Project standards development organization, committed to the future convergence of terrestrial and […]
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Connectivity
FCC Releases Final C-Band Order
The FCC released its final report and order on repurposing C-band spectrum for 5G on Tuesday, slightly shifting the amounts that satellite operators can receive in accelerated relocation payments to […]
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Finance
Rakuten and Vodafone Invest in SpaceMobile, a LEO Cell Service
Rakuten and Vodafone are the lead investors in a just-announced space-based cellular broadband network called SpaceMobile from AST & Science. AST & Science plans to create a constellation of Low-Earth-Orbit […]
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Connectivity
Optus Deploys Dual-Band 5G Production Network in Australia
Optus said it has successfully launched a 2300MHz and 3500MHz spectrum 5G dual-band production network through a partnership with Ericsson and Samsung, calling the network the world’s first. The dual-band […]
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Connectivity
FCC Approves Public C-Band Auction
The FCC sealed the fate of satellite operators in the C-band spectrum on Friday voting 3-2 on to expand flexible use of the spectrum for 5G deployment, requiring satellite operators […]
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Connectivity
Kratos Wins Government Contract to Build Satellite Spectrum Monitoring System
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions was awarded an $11.5 million contract from an unnamed government customer to build an advanced space radio monitoring system to help regulate and protect satellite […]
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Connectivity
Hughes Kicks Off Massive Community Wi-Fi Deployment in Rural Mexico
Hughes Network Systems and Telecomunicaciones de México (TELECOMM) will deploy Express Wi-Fi Hotspots in as many as 4,000 rural communities in Mexico, the operator announced Feb. 28. TELECOMM, a decentralized […]
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Connectivity
Thaicom DeOrbits Thaicom 5
Thaicom has migrated its customers from the Thaicom 5 satellite to Thaicom 6 and other satellites, the company announced Thursday. The company said the migration and service restoration were completed […]
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Connectivity
African Teleco Orange Adopts SES’s O3b mPOWER
African multi-service telecommunications operator Orange said it will be the first telco to adopt O3b mPOWER, SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite communications system. The operator, which is present in […]
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Mobility
Iridium Says Certus Upgrade Doubles Top Download Speeds
Iridium Communications has announced that its Iridium Certus 700 service is commercially available. The company said that when Iridium Certus was first launched in early 2019, it provided L-band upload […]



























