Another suite of missives from Intelsat were issued to the FCC on February 21st explaining where Intelsat stood on the CBA and the FCC’s decision to apportion proceeds from the upcoming auction in an equal split between Intelsat and SES. SES has let its disappoinment about Intelsat’s actions be known. In one FCC filing, Intelsat […]
The gloves are definitely off as far as SES is concerned with its former partner in the C-Band Alliance (CBA). In a last-minute filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) SES states it is disappointed by Intelsat’s last-minute attempt to renounce its commitments made to other CBA members and the Commission over the course of […]
Elon Musk is looking to raise $250 million for his SpaceX rocket launching system, according to a CNBC report. Given that SpaceX currently has Musk’s mega-constellation Starlink system in its portfolio of assets (which also includes the Crew Dragon shuttle and Starship long-distance rocket) means that SpaceX has a value of some $36 billion, says […]
Following the announcement of BT and Sky’s new sports bundles, multiplay operator Virgin Media says it remains the cheapest and most convenient way for UK football fans to watch all the action in one place. This is when customers bundle broadband with their TV bundle. According to Virgin Media, its Bigger + Sports bundle, currently […]
The US Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) has released updated data which it suggests shows that the digital divide substantially narrowed during the first two years of Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership of the FCC. Specifically, from December 2016 to December 2018, the number of Americans without any options for at least […]
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin (LM), disclosing the numbers in a filing to the USA’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), said that it has lost millions of dollars in building three communications satellites. LM said that the three satellites, including Japan’s JCSAT-17 launched earlier this week on an Arianespace rocket, represented cumulative losses of about $410 […]
Despite the continuing challenges being faced by Intelsat, one analyst says he senses a “more optimistic tone” from the company. Giles Thorne, an analyst at investment bank Jefferies, said that Intelsat is guiding overall revenues for this full year at $1.93-$1.98 billion which would represent a 5 per cent fall over 2019. The segment showing […]
Aerospace giant Airbus Defence & Space is to lose jobs in the UK at its Stevenage satellite-building division. Germany is bearing the brunt of the overall 2,362 job losses, with nearly 830 positions cut. In Spain 630 jobs are going and in France 400 workers are being cut. Some 350 jobs will go in the […]
Full year results from Movistar reveal that in 2019 the Telefónica-owned telco reached 4.3 million FTTH customers, up 9.8 per cent year-on-year, but pay-TV subscribers were down 0.4 per cent to a total of 4.07 million. Movistar has already passed 23.1 million homes for FTTH, adding 449,000 in the last quarter of 2019 and 1.8 […]
SES issued a statement in the early hours of February 20th which – politely – disagreed with its partner in the C-Band Alliance (CBA). SES said it is “disappointed” by Intelsat’s eleventh-hour attempt to capture a greater share of the FCC’s proposed incentive payments. Intelsat made a submission to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on […]