The FCC has permitted SpaceX to adjust its planned orbits for its Starlink mega-constellation. SpaceX had asked for permission to create orbits in 72 rings around the planet at orbital heights of 550 kms, and this is three-times the previously allowed plan. Each ring will now contain 22 satellites instead of the previous 66 and […]
Nearly 3 million UK homes can now access full-fibre broadband, Ofcom’s latest data on broadband and mobile availability shows. Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report analyses the availability of broadband and mobile services across the UK and its nations. This year’s report highlights further progress from industry in rolling out their networks, with the availability of […]
The former boss of France Télécom and two former executives have been jailed over a restructuring policy linked to suicides among employees in the 2000s. Didier Lombard was jailed for a year, as were Louis-Pierre Wenès and Olivier Barberot, although eight months were suspended. The company, now Orange, was fined €75,000. The court examined 39 […]
Spain’s fourth largest telco, MásMóvil, has achieved 100,000 customers through Yoigo to its TV service Agile TV. The reshuffle of its TV offer with the integration of OTT platforms like Netflix, Rakuten and Amazon Prime Video is bearing fruit, although far from the big numbers achieved by Movistar with 4.1 million TV customers, Vodafone with […]
Gilat Satellite Networks linked with a Telesat satellite (Telstar-19 Vantage) and used Gilat’s ESA aircraft-mounted terminal on a Boeing test aircraft to achieve what is claimed to be a milestone development in providing high-throughput in-flight connectivity. The test used Honeywell’s Boeing 757 test aircraft. Key to the test is an electronically steered antenna that fixes […]
Kazakhstan’s government says it will invest $233 million (€209.5m) in upgrading the Baikonur spaceport. News agency TASS says Kazakhstan’s cash will mean a new space launch facility (“Baiterek”) at Baikonur. Kazakhstan’s Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, Askar Zhumagaliev explained to journalists how the project would be managed: “In this project, the work […]
Broadband will become the primary mode of access to TV in Italy in the period 2019-2021, along with DTT, according to the latest ITMedia Consulting Report on the state of the Italian TV market. By the end of 2020, Broadband TV will have reached 9.2 million homes, up from 5.9 million in 2019 (+25 per […]
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 ABI Research and commissioned by InterDigital, outlines how the advent of streaming media use cases like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and cloud gaming […]
The hope that the C-Band Alliance might get Congressional support for its 5G/C-band plan failed when US legislators disagreed and determined there was no longer time to further discuss the proposal ahead of Congress having their Christmas break. The failure means that the FCC will now likely determine how the proposed auction revenues are divided […]
Amazon’s massive Project Kuiper scheme to launch 3236 satellites into a mega-constellation serving the plant with a low-latency broadband service is moving ahead rapidly. In a blog the company said it was renovating two huge factories in Redmond, Washington States, measuring 219,000 sq.ft. and which will contain Research & Development space, prototype manufacturing as well […]