Focus: Terrestrial Connectivity
February 27, 2023
Qualcomm Technologies is teaming up with Honor, Motorola, Nothing, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi to develop smartphones with satellite communication capabilities using its Snapdragon Satellite processor. Qualcomm made the announcement, Feb. 27 at the start of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Snapdragon Satellite is a satellite-based two-way capable messaging solution for smartphones. It offers global…
February 2, 2023
Samsung announced the details of its new Galaxy S23 series of smartphones this week — and emergency messaging via satellite was not one of the features. In Wednesday's Galaxy Unpacked announcement, Samsung announced that the S23 Ultra will use Qualcomm’s new "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy" chips, but did not mention any satellite messaging…
January 5, 2023
Iridium Communications unveiled its satellite-to-cell ambitions on Thursday, announcing a partnership with Qualcomm Technologies for satellite-compatible chips that will enable messaging on Android cell phones via Iridium’s satellite constellation. The new Qualcomm chipset can send two-way messages on Iridium’s current satellite network, and the companies reported a successful demonstration this week at the CES trade…
December 14, 2022
MetTel shared details on Wednesday of deploying its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service using the VMware SD-WAN solution over SpaceX's Starlink satellite service. MetTel is a networking company for enterprise customers. MetTel said that it collaborated with multiple enterprise clients to deploy SD-WAN technology over the Starlink satellite network to bring high bandwidth communications…