hiSky, a specialist in voice and data satellite communications and provider of satellite-connected IoT services, has parternered with Spacecom, a satellite communication service provider and the operator of the AMOS satellites fleet, to launch services via the AMOS-17 satellite. hiSky’s Smartellite Ka and Ku band terminals provide global coverage of its services, both onshore and […]
SES has unveiled its Q3 and nine-month numbers, and also announced that it has cancelled plans to divide the company into two: a Video-based business (responsible for 59 per cent of group revenue) and a Networks company. Group revenues for the nine months were €1.41 billion and down 2.9 per cent on 2019’s €1.45 billion. […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has completed what it says is the nation’s biggest ever gigabit switch-on with nearly 3 million homes in London and across Northern Ireland now able to benefit from next-generation connectivity. Residents living in the areas can now make the most of Virgin Media’s Gig1 broadband, which it says is more […]
Virgin Media says it is successfully navigating through the Covid-19 pandemic and is investing in digital and in innovation. The UK and Ireland cable operator is delivering broadband, video and fixed-line telephony services to 6 million customers, and mobile services to 3.5 million subscribers at September 30th 2020. Virgin Media says it expects to emerge […]
Virgin Telco, Euskaltel’s subsidiary for the whole Spanish market, has surpassed 50,000 customers some two months ahead of schedule following “strong growth” in October, adding 30,000 subscribers, 21,000 in fixed broadband and almost 9,000 in mobile broadband. “We are very proud of this milestone”, said CEO of Euskaltel, José Miguel García. “We have managed to […]
OneWeb, which should be emerging from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early December, has shipped a batch of satellites to the Russian launch site at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in Russia’s Far East. Vostochny, which means ‘Eastern’ in Russian, is Russia’s second spaceport and designed to take the launch pressure from its main rocket site at […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite service is providing impressive speeds to its beta-test users. Numerous reports are emerging that downlink speeds, according to speedtest specialist Ookla, are reaching 160 Mb/s and for at least one rural customer in Montana stated that his downlink speed was 174 Mb/s and upload of 33 Mb/s. Another on the West […]
The fourth largest telco operator in Spain, MásMóvil, is now controlled with a 99.32 per cent by Funds KKR, Cinven and Providence, through Lorca Bidco – and has been removed from the Stock Market after eight years of operation. Speculation is increasingly mounting about a possible merger with Vodafone to become the second largest telco […]
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat says it is further developing its relationship with CSG to deliver Cloud services and monetisation of its mobile broadband services. As part of this multi-year agreement, Inmarsat is moving its billing and revenue management operations to a consolidated, cloud-based managed services model developed by CSG, replacing existing third-party and bespoke legacy […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) is asking its 13 member nations to stump up an extra €230 million ($268m) to aid the development of Arianespace’s next generation Ariane 6 rocket as well as its Vega-6 rocket. The bill could rise. To date the Ariane 6 R&D programme has already cost a budgeted €2.83 billion and […]