Connectivity

ViaSat has opened its new Asia-Pacific (APAC) headquarters, located in Melbourne, Australia. According to ViaSat, the new office is a signal of growth for the company and represents the need...

Although Hurricane Harvey surprised everyone — including meteorologists — with unprecedented rainfall, the disaster has exemplified a marked improvement in the resiliency of emergency communications. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC),...

With 5G set to arrive within the next five years, accounting for as many as 1.1 billion connections by 2025, the telecoms industry has a lot of work to do...

Speedcast International and Danaos Peripherals announced a strategic alliance agreement under which the two companies will combine maritime communications with advanced application management developed by Danaos. Within 2017, the two...

EchoStar has successfully completed the in-orbit testing of the recently launched EchoStar 21 satellite. The company has also completed the handover of the satellite from manufacturer Space Systems Loral (SSL)...

The advent of new High Throughput Satellites (HTS) will add to the swell of LEO and MEO bandwidth supply. As capacity will likely reach unprecedented levels, can the industry expect...

SES has announced a change of launch vehicles and launch slots for its SES 12 and SES 14 satellites. Originally, SES had tasked SpaceX to launch SES 14 on an...

Dejero has formed a partnership with Intelsat to offer a new blended cellular and satellite service that enables live newsgathering in both remote and overcrowded locations. According to Dejero founder...

For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a city. The demonstration showed that it...

Intelsat announced that the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Stephen Spengler, has been named a commissioner of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. The Broadband Commission, jointly managed...