Focus: Mobile Connectivity
May 25, 2018
Speedcast International has successfully delivered 3.174 Gbps of satellite bandwidth onboard Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest mega cruise ship, Horizon. The data rate was initially achieved at the Carnival Horizon naming ceremony on Wednesday in the New York harbor. The Speedcast solution uses bandwidth from multiple satellite operators, in this case leveraging both Intelsat and Telesat.…
May 22, 2018
Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot Group is set to deploy an Internet of Things (IOT) solution for fuel monitoring from Orange Business Services. The solution helps to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and vessel position, to, reportedly, save up to 10 percent of fuel costs and help to prevent unauthorized fuel usage. The IOT solution uses a fully-managed satellite…
May 18, 2018
Orbit Communications Systems, a provider of precision tracking-based communications solutions and airborne communications management systems, has announced that it intends to unveil its new 12-inch Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT 30) for airborne SatCom at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa, Florida on May 21-24. The MPT was designed to address the regional and global coverage…
May 17, 2018
SES and Hispasat, along with other members of the satellite community, have signed a contribution agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), stepping up its commitment to support global disaster relief. The contribution agreements are an important step in operationalizing the Crisis Connectivity Charter signed…