Focus: Broadband

Satellite service provider Marlink has expanded its long-term partnership with SES for dedicated capacity on the O3b mPOWER constellation. SES and Marlink announced the multi-year, multi-million-euro deal on Wednesday.  Marlink […]

Satellite service provider Marlink has joined OneWeb’s distribution partner program and will offer OneWeb’s connectivity to the maritime, energy, enterprise, and humanitarian sectors. The companies announced Monday they initially plan […]

Viasat continued its streak of record revenues in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, but pushed the highly anticipated Viasat-3 satellite launch to late summer.  The company provided an […]

SpaceX is now taking pre-orders for Starlink Premium, a more expensive Starlink service with a more capable user terminal, geared toward businesses and high demand users. SpaceX announced the service […]

Viasat is partnering with Australian telecommunications company Telstra to build and manage the ground infrastructure and fiber network for the ViaSat-3 satellite system targeting the Asia-Pacific region. Under the 16.5-year […]

Telesat has tapped Cobham Satcom to supply the landing terminals for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. The companies announced Tuesday that Cobham will manufacture, integrate, and install its Ka-band […]

Credit Suisse released a new report “LEO Disruption: A Starlink in the Making,” which takes a deep dive into the prospects of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite operators and compares the […]

Intersat has purchased all of the available capacity over Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Senegal from Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite. This multi-year deal represents several hundred megabytes and will address the connectivity […]

Hughes Network Systems announced Tuesday that it signed an eight-year service contract with Network Services Solutions (NSS) to upgrade, expand and manage a satellite monitoring network for one of NSS’ […]

OneWeb has signed new distribution deals in Australia and India as it ramps up activity in 2022. Field Solutions Holdings (FSG), an Australian rural and regional telecoms carrier, has signed […]

Kacific Broadband Satellites (Kacific) has signed a new deal to bring satellite broadband services across the Philippines, one of Asia’s largest markets. It announced Jan. 17 that it had teamed […]

After announcing a deal with the Repsol Foundation to develop  technologies that will be applied to the reforestation sector to offset CO2 emissions, Hispasat plans to expand its joint satellite […]

Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A funding round to advance its plans for a satellite and edge computing network. The round, announced Tuesday, was led by Playground […]

Ligado Networks and Nokia have reached a commercial agreement to work together on private networks for enterprise customers. They plan to offer enterprise customers the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud private […]

This year is set to be a big one for satellite launches, as a number of major satellite operators launch satellites that mark the culmination of years-long business plans and […]

OneWeb closed out 2021 with its 12th satellite launch on Monday, Dec. 27. Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched 36 satellites for OneWeb on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur […]

The U.S. Navy’s Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) has awarded Viasat two new contracts to support personal communications at Navy bases in Guam and Poland. Viasat has a continued relationship […]

SES has agreed to provide satellite-based trunking services to Integra Multisolutions (IMS) in Colombia to connect underserved communities. SES announced Dec. 15 that the new service will begin on the […]

Satellite operators are bullish on the prospects for satellite broadband, but differ on their offerings and approaches to capture the market.  On Tuesday during World Satellite Business Week, Jean-Hubert Lenotte, […]

On Monday, executives from some of the biggest satellite operators told the audience at Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) that they performed better than expected in 2021, despite unclear conditions […]

Oman’s largest integrated telecom service provider, Omantel, purchased satellite backhaul services, a gateway hub, and hundreds of terminals from Hughes Network Systems, the operator announced Monday. Under the terms of […]

South American satellite service provider Grupo Andesat will use an Astranis MicroGEO satellite to provide broadband connectivity in rural Peru. The deal, announced Tuesday, will launch the first dedicated communications […]

SpaceX launched a batch of 48 Starlink satellites on Thursday evening, with two BlackSky satellites along for the ride. The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40 […]

Telesat has chosen Satixfy for baseband modem equipment for its Lightspeed satellite constellation. The Canadian operator on Wednesday announced a manufacturing agreement for 288 of Satixfy’s Sx3099 landing station modems.  […]

OneWeb is working with Kymeta through a joint development agreement to develop a flat panel antenna for land fixed applications, the companies announced Wednesday. The antenna will be based on […]

Kacific Broadband Satellites expects to significantly bring down the costs of deploying satellite broadband in the markets where it operates with a new modem and terminal. The company announced Nov. […]

Kacific Broadband Satellites is introducing a new backhaul service targeting ISPs and telcos in Asia and the Pacific, the company announced November 22. The Ka-band mobile backhaul service, called ‘Mobile […]

SES is bringing high-speed connectivity to remote villages in Kazakhstan via its O3b satellite constellation, the company announced Nov. 19. SES is part of major project which is being implemented […]

Eutelsat has revealed results of a  collaboration project with Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency of gas pipelines, the company […]

Iridium launched the Iridium Certus 100 midband service this week for maritime, land mobile, IoT, aviation, and government customers.  The midband speeds can support email, messaging applications, media sharing, telemetry […]