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Ruwido’s NEO remote gets design accolade

The German Design Awards commemorate pioneering solutions in design, and this year, the NEO remote from Ruwido won in the entertainment category. The German Design Award 2020 – Excellent Product Design is a shared achievement of Telekom Slovenije and ruwido, the Austrian company with the leading position in design and manufacturing of interactive remote controls, […]

December 2, 2019By Chris Forrester

SES, Luxembourg renew orbital concession

Satellite operator SES and the Luxembourg Government have reached an agreement to renew SES’s concession to operate satellites flying under Luxembourg jurisdiction for 20 years, effective from January 2022 when the current concession expires, with an annual fee of €1 million from 2025 onwards. As part of the agreement and starting from 2022, SES will […]

November 29, 2019

Verizon and AT&T want early CBA action

Preston Padden, the first head of advocacy at the C-Band Alliance (he stepped down in March, and had been EVP of Government Relations at Disney) issued a slice of advice to his former colleagues in the Alliance. In a Tweet this week he said: “C-Band lesson to all Spectrum licensees, Federal and Private – cling […]

November 29, 2019

Spain: Pay-TV subs growth slows

The number of pay-TV subscriptions in Spain slowed down in the first half of the year with a year-on-year growth of 2.1 per cent to 6.8 million, and with a slight decline of 1.2 per cent on the first three months of 2019, according to the latest report from the CNMC. Movistar leads the market […]

November 29, 2019From David Del Valle in Madrid

Eutelsat reaffirms financial expectations

Eutelsat has spent the past few days meeting financial analysts, and supplying its mid-term outlook as to its trading expectations. One investment bank, in a note to clients, advised that Eutelsat reaffirmed its mid-term outlook of a return to group top line growth driven by positive stability in revenues of the core Video broadcast business […]

November 28, 2019

SpaceX planning multiple December launches

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing up to four of its Falcon 9 rockets for launch next month. Already in the manifest is the launch of a condominium satellite (Japan’s JSAT-18/Kacific) joint mission which is slated for around December 15th. Earlier than that will see SpaceX on December 4th launch a Dragon re-supply mission to the […]

November 28, 2019By Chris Forrester

Capacity boost for Tokyo 2020 Olympics

International communications enabler BICS has confirmed a major upgrade and expansion of its backbone in Japan, increasing capacity tenfold to support the expected growing demand for roaming and IP-based services. The move comes ahead of increasing numbers of domestic and international mobile subscribers travelling in and out of Japan expected in 2020 and follows growing […]

November 28, 2019By Colin Mann

Mobile tech & services adding $191bn a year to MENA economy

The GSMA has released two new reports at the annual GSMA Mobile 360 – MENA event currently taking place in Dubai. These reports highlight the positive economic impact of the mobile ecosystem on markets across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as well as the transformative impact of IoT technologies on regional governments’ […]

November 27, 2019

Thaicom opens up to satellite competition

Thailand’s Thaicom has confirmed it is to free up its C-band spectrum (3400-3700 MHz range) and to allow the bandwidth to be auctioned for use by the country’s 5G networks. The nation is also to welcome foreign satellite operators to manage and operate Thaicom’s existing satellites and broadcast frequencies. A presentation last week organised by […]

November 27, 2019By Chris Forrester

Arianespace’s 250th launch success

Arianespace has successfully orbited two geostationary satellites: TIBA-1, for Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space on behalf of the Government of Egypt; and GX5 for Inmarsat. The launch took place on November 26th at 18:23 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch also […]

November 27, 2019By Chris Forrester