Liberty Global has reported revenues of $2.86 billion (€2.55bn), down 0.6 per cent on a year-on-on year basis annual basis while operating income was down 10.3 per cent on the same period last year to $105.5 million. Virgin Media showed a net customer gain of 59,200, an annual increase of 32 per cent. Liberty’s UK […]
OneWeb launched six pilot satellites into a transfer orbit on February 27th. It has now confirmed that the first of that batch has now reached its designated position. OneWeb is planning to place a total of 648 satellites, each weighing about 150 kgs, into Low Earth orbit (LEO) and using at least 20 Russian-built Soyuz […]
Spain’s fourth largest telco operator, MásMóvil, reported a net profit of €22 million in the first quarter of the year, up 168 per cent on the same period last year. EBITDA reached €105 million, up 40 per cent on last year’s €75 million, and €15 million more than the previous quarter. Total Q1 revenues amounted […]
Vodafone has agreed a cable wholesale agreement in Germany with Telefónica Deutschland – a deal it hopes will seal EU approval for its’ Liberty acquisition. The agreement will allow Telefónica DE to offer high-speed broadband services to consumers on Vodafone and Unitymedia’s cable network in Germany, and is subject to the completion of Vodafone’s acquisition […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking the C-Band Alliance (of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) to clarify certain key points on the Alliance’s plan to reallocate 180 MHz of C-band (3.7-4.2 GHz) satellite spectrum to speed the roll-out of 5G over the US. The FCC’s request, made on the eve of the important 2019 […]
Intelsat and SES, the two key members of the C-Band Alliance, say they will order 8 new C-band satellites if the FCC gives its approval for the Alliance’s scheme to reallocate 180 MHz of satellite spectrum over the US. One the opening day of the Satellite 2019 show in Washington DC, the Alliance confirmed its […]
Technically Ottawa-based Telesat is already a member of the LEO ‘club’ given that it launched a ‘Phase 1’ test satellite in January 2018. CEO Dan Goldberg told analysts that it expected to receive official quotations from a pair of satellite builders this summer, and would then award a contract. France-based Airbus and a consortium of […]
Indonesia has contracted with Thales Alenia Space to build its Satelit Republik Indonesia ‘Satria’ satellite which will serve almost 150,000 sites throughout the archipelago and which the government says is the most efficient way of providing high-speed connectivity to the nation. The satellite will orbit with both Ku and Ka-band functionality and the craft will […]
Eutelsat Communications has chosen high-performance ground infrastructure providers to operate its future KONNECT satellite and associated broadband services: General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been selected to offer and deploy seven antennas, while Hughes Network Systems will provide its Jupiter ground network system. With 75 Gbps of capacity, KONNECT is a new generation multi-beam satellite scheduled […]
GetSAT, a manufacturer of portable terminals that offer high data-rate communications for ground, air and maritime applications, and Inmarsat, the global player in global, mobile satellite communications, have announced that Inmarsat has type approved GetSAT’s MilliSAT-H-GX and MilliSAT-W-GX for use on its Global Xpress service. These new terminals are said to be the lightest and […]