Satellite IoT startup Skylo announced partnerships Jan. 5 with both smartphone manufacturer Bullitt Group and IoT solutions company Quectel aimed at expanding connectivity through satellite through smart phones and IoT devices.  IoT solutions company Quectel announced its series of 5G-ready LPWA modules will support satellite non-terrestrial networks, allowing customers to seamlessly connect via cellular or…

Iridium Communications debuted a new satellite IoT messaging service on Wednesday, Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT). It’s a two-way cloud-native networked data service optimized for Iridium Certus to make it easier to add satellite connections to existing or new IoT solutions.  IMT is an an IP data transport service designed for small to moderate-sized messages for…

With the highly anticipated Release 17 from 3GPP, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is now on a fast track to becoming the first technology to bridge the worlds of telecom and satcom. But will this limit standard 5G NTN services to be IoT-related only, until we move on to future releases? Not likely, since recent development and…

Globalstar has signed a deal with Argentinian agtech startup Wiagro to supply IoT transmitters to be used to remotely monitor crops stored in silos.   Globalstar announced Wednesday it will provide 2,500 ST100 satellite modem transmitters for Wiagro’s Smart Silobag product, which remotely monitors the condition of grain stored in silo bags. Deployment is estimated to…