Focus: Telecom

[Via Satellite 10-02-2013] Pullmantur Cruises, a Royal Caribbean International brand, is renewing and extending its long-term relationship with MTN Communications. Pullmantur chose to increase the breadth of communications services and...

[Via Satellite 10-02-13] ThinKom Solutions’ ultra-low profile ThinSAT 300 antenna, which provides global communications-on-the-move (COTM) connectivity, has been qualified to be interoperable with iDirect‘s OpenAMIP protocol. Complying with iDirect’s OpenAMIP...

[Via Satellite 10-01-13] Q-KON Africa now offers service providers across the continent the opportunity to acquire and rollout a StarLight connectivity solution – complete with a new billing system. StarLight...

[Via Satellite 10-01-13] Bharti Airtel, a telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has launched its Africa Connect network aimed at enhancing Africa’s connectivity with the...

[Via Satellite 10-01-13] Last week Optus confirmed the availability of the Thuraya SatSleeve through Optus Business in a key new deal. Optus Vice President of Satellite Paul Sheridan told Via...

[Via Satellite 09-30-13] Eutelsat Communications and Satellite Broadband Service Network Montenegro (SBS Net) have completed an ultra-fast, secure satellite network connecting Montenegro’s police headquarters with the country’s six border control...

[Via Satellite 09-30-13] Huawei and O3b have enabled full 3G voice, data and video over satellite. This follows rigorous testing of O3b’s system in the Huawei Interoperability Lab in Shanghai,...

[Via Satellite 09-30-13] Media Networks has signed an agreement to provide its wholesale satellite Internet service in Ku-band, ISAT-KU, to Ensatel, a satellite Internet provider in the Peruvian Amazon. This...

[Via Satellite 09-30-13] Norsat International, a provider of communication solutions that enable the transmission of data, audio and video for remote and challenging applications, has launched the 1.2m Ku-band all-in-one...

[Via Satellite 09-27-13] Singapore Airlines (SIA) has taken to the skies with its first eight new Boeing 777-300ERs equipped with Panasonic Avionics Corporation’s true broadband Wi-Fi, mobile phone service and...