SES’s relationship with Microsoft continues to deepen. Last year, the operator reached a deal with Microsoft to become an ExpressRoute partner and to offer cloud-enabled video playout services. Now, SES is becoming the Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) connectivity partner for Microsoft Azure Orbital, Microsoft’s new managed service enabling network operators to communicate and control their satellite capacity, process…

South Korean telecommunications company KT SAT conducted its first public demonstration of a satellite-5G hybrid router transmission technology at the SatelliteAsia 2020 exposition on Thursday. The company said the router is the first of its kind for the satellite industry. The satellite / 5G router was jointly developed by KT SAT and the KT Institute of…

MediaTek reports it has conducted a successful trial of a 5G satellite Internet of Things (IoT) data connection. In a Wednesday release, MediaTek said it established a bi-directional link and transferred data from its satellite-enabled standard NB-IoT device to Inmarsat's Alphasat L-band satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The companies say this test was the first…

Skylo revealed on Tuesday that it is partnering with Sony Semiconductor Israel (formerly known as Altair Semiconductor). Skylo and Sony say they are the first to develop and deploy cellular Internet of Things (IoT) chipsets that can connect via Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites, which use the standardized, 5G-ready, NB-IoT protocol. The partnership also makes contributions…