Focus: Broadband

Eutelsat has begun direct distribution broadband through Konnect, its retail distribution arm, in Europe and Africa, Eutelsat announced Monday. With Konnect, Eutelsat is using a multi-channel retail strategy with online...

SKYTRAC Systems is partnering with Scandinavian Avionics (the headquarters of The SA Group), the company revealed last Monday. The partnership’s goal is to increase market share for Skytrac’s broadband and...

Viasat is making moves to strengthen its European position in the broadband market. The satellite operator announced Thursday it is purchasing the remaining 51% share of Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI),...

Telecom Italia (TIM) purchased all of the capacity dedicated to Italy on Eutelsat’s KONNECT satellite in order to provide fixed broadband services to Italian households starting in January 2021. Additionally,...

Intelsat revealed on its corporate blog on Tuesday that the Intelsat CellBackhaul service is coming to Europe. The company recently implemented a new gateway using Comtech hubs at the Intelsat...

Eutelsat Communications revealed Monday that its KONNECT High Throughput Satellite (HTS) entered into service at the 7 degrees East orbital position. This is the first Eutelsat satellite that will provide...

Talia has acquired an additional Ka-band spot beam with coverage across the Levant region from Arabsat, the communications provider announced Thursday. The new agreement adds an additional Ka-band spot beam...

Executives from SpaceX, Telesat, Iridium and SES gathered virtually at World Satellite Business Week Virtual Edition hosted by Euroconsult on Tuesday, to discuss their different approaches with Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)...

Viasat‘s new CEO Rick Baldridge joined executives from major satellite operators SES, Intelsat, Hughes Networks Systems, and Eutelsat on a virtual executive panel just days after he was named the...

Telesat and the Canadian government have reached a $462 million (600 million Canadian dollars) agreement to use Telesat’s upcoming Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide high-speed broadband across all...