
KT claims first 5G data transmission with satellite connection
South Korea’s KT Corp has announced it has successfully conducted what it claims is the world’s first 5G data transmission with a satellite connection. Read more…
South Korea’s KT Corp has announced it has successfully conducted what it claims is the world’s first 5G data transmission with a satellite connection. Read more…
WRC-19 is over, and for once, just about everyone is happy with the results as cellcos and satellite players now have more spectrum to play with. Read more…
China launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite capable of providing stereoscopic imagery for topographic mapping. Read more…
5G, Wi-Fi, LEOsats, cars, drones and broadband balloons – they all need spectrum. WRC-19 hopes to give it to them. Let the spectrum wars begin! Read more…
Broadcasters want to use the cloud – the challenge is maintaining broadcast quality levels end to end. Intelsat’s solution: blend connections together. Read more…
Inmarsat’s Todd McDonell talks about the company’s recent Airbus deal to take its Global Xpress broadband offering to the next generation. Read more…
Increased connectivity in airplanes could increase efficiency and reduce environmental effects, according to recent reports from the Sky High Economics study, a project from the London School of Economics for UK-based satellite company Inmarsat. ITU Read more…
Major satellite operators see 5G as an opportunity to integrate themselves more deeply into the mobile ecosystem, but one key ingredient remains missing – open standards. Satellite companies have been targeting the mobile sector for Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec said Read more…
Inmarsat announced that Qatar Airways is rolling out the satellite operator’s new GX Aviation inflight broadband service on its Boeing 777 and Airbus A350 aircraft. Qatar Airways is the first airline in the Middle East Read more…
Satellite players have always looked for ways to stay relevant in the mobile era. But aside from expensive satellite handsets and rural cellular backhaul, it’s been tough going. And you’d be forgiven for thinking that Read more…
HAMBURG (Reuters) – Satellite technology to provide Wi-Fi onboard planes has matured to a point where more and more airlines are looking to use it, triggering a “gold rush” among suppliers. That brings opportunities for Read more…
Six satellite industry associations have established the Global Satellite Coalition (GSC), an international advocacy group whose mission is to secure new satellite spectrum and protect existing spectrum by promoting the value proposition of satellite services Read more…
Optus Satellite and low-earth orbit satellite operator Telesat announced they will be collaborating in live, over-the-air trials on Telesat’s recently launched LEO satellite. Telesat’s first Phase 1 LEO satellite – launched in January this year Read more…
Eutelsat Communications has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China Unicom, who will leverage resources on the recently launched Eutelsat 172B satellite to enhance inflight connectivity services across an area stretching from the West coast Read more…
Eutelsat Communications’ all-electric Eutelsat 172B satellite has begun full commercial service, promising greatly enhanced flexibility, power and connectivity for users from the West coast of the Americas to Asia, Oceania and across the Pacific. The Read more…
Satellite broadcasting operator KT Skylife has selected the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the foundation for Telebee, a new end-to-end turnkey OTT service to compete against Netflix, Hulu and other SVOD services. According to Alticast, Read more…
Over the next five years, 10,000 new internet satellites from seven different consortia will be launched into orbit to deliver broadband services quite unlike what we have come to expect from satellite broadband up until Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of ATMs and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a Read more…
AsiaSat 9 – AsiaSat’s next and most powerful satellite – is set for launch on September 28 on a Proton M/Breeze M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after being in storage at Space Systems Read more…
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