ST Engineering iDirect is set for a busy year in 2023 as it aims to bring more of its technology to some of the satellite network business plans developing around the world. However, it has been an interesting time for the company. Its former CEO Kevin Steen recently left to join OneWeb Technologies, and Ka…

SES signed a multi-year capacity renewal with Claro Brasil through Embratel to support connectivity in at least eight cities with O3b mPOWER network. Embratel is the corporate solutions division of telco Claro Brasil. Under the renewal agreement announced Thursday, Embratel will have 4 Gbps over the O3b mPOWER network to extend its mobile backhaul service.…

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 @…

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…