Amazon has confirmed that it wants to launch 3236 satellites into space. Its ‘Project Kuiper’ has already received plenty of speculation, but now the Jeff Bezos-backed business has formally asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve the scheme, and to permit frequencies to be used. Amazon used a July 4th filing to the FCC […]
Ericsson has helped Liberty Global to deliver high speed gigabit broadband and linear TV services to residential customers using Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) over a wireless backhaul ‘Trunk’ link. It is the result of an innovative trial between the two companies in which the wireless backhaul was delivered using Ericsson’s MINI-LINK radio […]
Intelsat, one of the main members of the C-Band Alliance, saw an 8.3 percent jump in its share price on July 5th following the FCC’s chairman Ajit Pai specifically referring to the upcoming C-band decision. Industry observers expect a decision towards the end of September. The Chairman’s comments, made in a speech in Argentina, weren’t […]
Israel’s space start-up NSL Comm, which has raised US$16 million since 2015, is seeking to launch a fleet of Low Orbiting satellites to beam broadcasts and broadband to consumers. Its debut satellite NSL-Sat1 was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early on Friday morning. The nano-satellite’s key special feature is that it has a novel […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is again winning launch contracts. July 3rd saw an order from Inmarsat and Space Norway for SpaceX’s sixth launch contract of the year to date. Launch is expected in 2022. The contract covers two satellites to be built by Northrop-Grumman using their GeoStar-3 version craft. Each satellite weighs some 2000 kgs. They […]
Research from Parks Associates shows US broadband households highly likely to cut the cord in the next 12 months watch more than six hours of video content on their mobile phone a week, compared to 2.5 hours among all US broadband households. Examining Broadband Cord Cutters notes that fixed broadband providers that do not offer […]
The C-Band Alliance submitted a 39-page and extremely detailed ‘Public Notice’ filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 3rd that comprehensively argues its case for a ‘market-based approach’ for its proposed restructuring of C-band over the US for 5G. The filing also focuses on the rights – or otherwise – of C-band Earth […]
Euskaltel, the fifth largest telco in Spain, and China’s ZTE have opened a technology centre in Gijón, north of Spain, to server the telco network of the Spanish operator. With 40 staff the centre will also play an important role in Euskaltel’s 5G deployment that also includes cable operators R and Telecable. The move is […]
Ottawa-based Telesat has a couple of test Low Earth orbiting satellites working in space as precursors to the deployment of a full constellation. But if these, and other proposed mega-constellations, are to succeed then there has to be a lower-cost antenna system capable of picking up the craft’s signals. The airline industry in particular is […]
Following the May 2019 launch in six UK cities of 5G by its EE 5G network, UK telco BT is launching 5G this autumn. BT Plus customers will be the first BT mobile customers to benefit from the option to upgrade to 5G, making BT the first provider to offer 5G as part of a […]