Jeff Bezos is planning to launch an eventual 3236 low-Earth orbiting satellites into space in order to provide a broadband-by-satellite service to consumers. Project Kuiper will compete directly with the Starlink scheme from Elon Musk as well as a few other would-be satellite operators such as OneWeb, Telesat and others. As yet there is no […]
Harmonic has announced new technology that enables cable operators to provide new two-way gigabit services. Harmonic’s unique upstream gigabit solution is full spectrum and compatible with already-deployed cable modems and set-top boxes (STBs). This new technology has been integrated into Harmonic’s CableOS core software and its new Ripple+ network edge platform. The company also announced […]
Russia is to invest $800 million on a new rocket system to compete directly with SpaceX and its reusable Falcon 9 launchers according to Russian news agency TASS. The Russian rocket system, called Amur, was signed with a contract between Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos and the Progress Space Rocket Center on the conceptual design of […]
BT is expanding its multinational customers’ choice of cloud-based audio and video collaboration managed services with the addition of Zoom Meetings to its portfolio. It follows the signing of a new carrier agreement between BT and Zoom Video Communications. The agreement means BT will now offer a fully managed Zoom Meetings service featuring a choice […]
If there’s one vital component that Elon Musk and the likes of Jeff Bezos as well as Telesat, OneWeb and others need it’s a low-cost consumer friendly phased array flat-panel antenna. Yoel Gat, founder of Gilat Satellite Networks (and now CEO at SatixFy, a designer of flat-panel antennas) says that the dream of a sub-$300 […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made a request to the European Commission to refer the proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2 to the CMA for investigation. Liberty Global plc (Liberty) owns Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile in the UK, and Telefónica S.A. (Telefónica) owns O2. Liberty and Telefónica […]
Elon Musk, in a tweet after the latest Starlink launch, said that once this batch of 60 satellites are in their correct orbital positions then a test broadband service will start. “We will be able to roll out a fairly wide public beta [service] in northern US & hopefully southern Canada,” Musk said. “Other countries […]
BT Group has announced that the New Bailey development, close to Manchester city centre, will be its primary new home in the city and provide a future-fit workplace for thousands of colleagues. The new building will complete the New Bailey scheme, close to the city’s Spinningfields business district. It will become a key hub for […]
Bryce Space & Technology have created a graphic which explains and details the overall space and satellite industry, and broken down into its various component parts. The overall value of this huge global business is placed at $366 billion (€311.2bn) as at 2019. While the television-related segment is worth a massive $92 billion, an even […]
Three important rocket launches from Florida’s Space Coast were delayed over the past two weeks prompting Elon Musk, in a Tweet, to admit that further improvements will need to be made to the Falcon-9 rocket system if his SpaceX business has a chance of completing a planned 48-launch schedule in 2021. Musk said he was […]