OneWeb asks FCC to authorise 48,000 satellites
OneWeb, despite being on the sales forecourt as far as its assets are concerned while it is Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is asking the FCC to approve expanding its constellation of…
Dish: “Hard at work on wireless”
Erik Carlson, CEO at US DTH operator Dish Network, says the company is hard at work on its wireless initiatives. “The wireless team continues to make progress on a standalone…
Forecast: 10m satellite-connected IoT devices by 2025
The internet of things (IoT) has already conquered the earth, with billions of devices everywhere—from cars, to factories, to entire cities. Now the IoT is blasting off into space, with…
Over 60m devices deployed with RDK software
RDK Management has disclosed details about the continued adoption of RDK open source software used to power customer-premise equipment (CPE) from broadband and video service providers worldwide. “RDK now powers…
Report: Coronavirus impacts smart home market
Amid the continued fallout of the coronavirus crisis, the global smart home market is expected to fall nearly $20 billion (€17.9bn) short of revenue expectations in 2020, according to Omdia.…
Exotrail helps Eutelsat’s cubesats
Eutelsat is developing a fleet of small cubesats which they have dubbed ELOs (for Eutelsat LEO for Objects) and which will seek IoT and related communication business. The satellites are…
Report: 5G to support 10% of mobile connections
According to the new Cisco Annual Internet Report, 5G will support more than 10 per cent of the world’s mobile connections by 2023. The average 5G speed will be 575…
Forecast: 5G IoT revenue to reach $8bn by 2025
A study from Juniper Research forecasts that total operator-billed revenue from 5G IoT connections will reach $8 billion (€7.4bn) by 2024; rising from $525 million in 2020. This is a…
Verizon opens 5G Lab in London
Verizon has opened a new 5G Lab and production studio in London – the company’s first 5G-enabled facility outside the US – to support its international business and media customers.…
Research: 5G to transform TMT landscape
Omdia, the freshly-rebranded technology research group, has released a new research paper which it says connects the dots between the strategies, technologies, companies and market trends impacting industries as they…
FCC proposes updated TV white space rules
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed providing additional opportunities for unlicensed white space devices to deliver wireless broadband services in rural areas of the US. Such devices operate…
Kinéis raises €100m for IoT
A spin-off business from France’s national space agency (CNES) has raised €100 million in funding in order to launch a constellation of 25 ‘nano-satellites’ to serve the growing Internet of…
Skylo one to watch for satellite IoT
Skylo has just raised a total of $103 million (€92.9m) in Series B funding for its proposed Internet of Things satellite-based service. Skylo had been in ‘stealth’ mode and according…
Report: Video over 70% of internet traffic in near future
InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and development company, has released a study revealing new use cases, and network challenges, in the next-generation video streaming ecosystem. The report from…
China wants OneWeb rival
China wants to launch a global competitor to the satellite mega-constellations proposed by OneWeb and Elon Musk’s Starlink system. The Hongyan system now calls for 864 satellites as part of…