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South Africa’s Department of Telecoms and Postal Services is considering leveraging satellite technology to connect all of the country’s residents. South Africa hopes to deliver broadband to 90 percent of...

Intelsat and The Coca-Cola Company are working together to bring satellite-enabled Wi-Fi services to remote communities across Africa. The partnership will support both companies’ future business plans and also their...

Alaska Communications announced it recently became a satellite network provider. The company entered an agreement with Eutelsat Americas, leasing transponder space in the C-band. This now allows favorable economics and...

Raytheon’s next-generation Common Ground System for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS CGS 2.0) is now operational, supporting 11 polar-orbiting satellites and delivering observations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Thuraya has announced the launch of Thuraya Talk, its new Voice Over IP (VOIP) service. According to Thuraya, the service opens up unique communication capabilities for both personal and professional...

Hughes Network Systems announced that it has signed a contract for $190 million with OneWeb for the production of a ground network system supporting OneWeb’s constellation of Low Earth Orbit...

InterSat and Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) announced the launch of iDirect platforms on ABS 3A C-band and Ku-band beams. According to InterSat, these platforms will provide broadband internet across Sub-Sahara...

Eutelsat Communications announced a multi-year agreement with La Poste Senegal, the country’s public postal service company, to interconnect 200 post offices nationwide. La Poste Senegal has chosen high-power Ku-band capacity...

Germany has allocated 400 million euros ($465 million) to build three spy satellites for the country’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND). If launched by the 2020s as is expected, the system, known as...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Telesat’s petition to access the United States market with the company’s soon-to-be-deployed global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Per the ruling, Telesat...