Elon Musk’s broadband-by-satellite Starlink business is readying to open for business in Europe. The markets invited include France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy and others. The company plans to launch its […]
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SpaceX Sights Set For South Africa + UPDATE1: Omnispace Hybrid Mobile Network Afoot
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system has added South Africa as a target market. South Africa’s media and telecoms regulator ICASA (Independent Communication Authority of South Africa) confirming that SpaceX is […]
Eutelsat May Take Back Some Of Nilesat’s Capacity + A Good Trading Day
Nilesat and Eutelsat effectively share the 7/8 degrees West orbital positions and have a considerable amount of inter-trading over the MENA market. Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer told analysts on Eutelsat’s […]
Thales Alenia Space’s Multi Billion Dollar Contract to Build a 298 LEO Broadband Satellite Constellation for Telesat
Telesat has selected Thales Alenia Space to build its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband 298-satellite constellation Lightspeed which offers high performing broadband professional services around the world. Thales Alenia Space […]
Satellite B’Band Capacity To Grow 10x By Year’s-end
A report from investment bank Exane/BNPP stated that today’s various satellite operators are supplying some 2,000 Gb/s of capacity (as of December 31, 2020, and using Northern Sky Research data). […]
ST Engineering iDirect To Supply Comms Bandwidth To Shaf Broadcast In India
ST Engineering iDirect has been awarded a contract by system integrator Shaf Broadcast, Pvt. Ltd., on behalf of the Indian state-owned telecommunications company, BSNL, to augment satellite bandwidth to the offshore Indian islands of Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshadweep under a Universal Service Obligation (USO) project funded by the Department of Telecommunications. […]
Eutelsat Satellite B’band To Zimbabwe
Eutelsat Communications’ (Euronext Paris: ETL), and TelOne (Pvt) Limited, one of Zimbabwe’s leading Internet Service Providers, have signed a master service agreement to bring high quality satellite broadband to Zimbabwe. […]
NSR’s Latest VSAT + B’Band Markets Report + Analysis
The Non-GEO SATCOM market has been highly speculative over the past decade, especially with the upcoming constellations – Starlink, Kuiper, Telesat, OneWeb and others. However, in 2020, against COVID-19 odds, […]
SES Networks’ Satellite Capacity Will Be Delivered To SSI Canada
Vital new satellite capacity will be delivered to Canada’s north, including all 25 communities of Nunavut, following a partnership signed between SSi Canada, the developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi […]
Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Celebrates Five Years and Upcoming Major Extension Plans
There’s celebrating taking place at Inmarsat for a number of reasons. Inmarsat is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Global Xpress (GX) network entering service worldwide. GX is the first globally available, […]