Yahsat has made a move in the Internet of Things arena, acquiring a minority stake in eSAT Global, an IoT connectivity solutions provider that aims to bring a low-cost, low latency, direct-to-satellite IoT service to market. Yahsat announced the deal Oct. 11. Yahsat sees the investment in eSAT representing an opportunity to participate in a fast-growing…

IoT company Soracom has added satellite connectivity to its global IoT platform through a partnership with Astrocast. The launch of native support for satellite allows customers to bring their own satellite-compatible hardware for remote monitoring, asset tracking, and other use cases, and manage all of their connections and billing in one place. The feature is…

IoT company floLive is partnering with satellite IoT company Skylo to extend its network with Skylo’s non-terrestrial network (NTN) IoT connectivity.  floLive operates a global “hyperlocal” IoT data network that autonomously switches customers between carrier networks. Skylo operates as a service provider for satellite IoT and will provide  3GPP-compliant coverage in remote and rural areas…

Satellite IoT company Sateliot announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday to build a cloud-based 5G service for narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) via satellite. Sateliot said that using AWS, it built a fully-virtualized cloud-native 5G core for NB-IoT with Magma, a project run by The Linux Foundation. 5G allows Sateliot’s customers to attach…