Focus: Broadband

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide satellite cellular backhaul services to Southern Linc, a wireless communications provider owned by Southern Company, under the terms of a new three-year contract announced October...

Inmarsat revealed Thursday that it was awarded a new contract with Cobham Satcom to connect 732 fishing vessels in the Maldives to Inmarsat’s Fleet One maritime broadband services. The five-year...

Last week, the movers and shakers within the Russian space industry gathered virtually at SatComRus to talk about the future for satellite in Russia, and what the impact of the...

Hughes Network Systems, SpaceX, and Viasat are qualified to bid in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction to bridge the digital divide, the FCC announced Tuesday. The...

Spacecom revealed Wednesday that the company is teaming up with Ignite Power, a Pan-African infrastructure developer, to install e-Health connectivity solutions in remote clinics across sub-Saharan Africa. The solutions aims...

Facebook confirmed to Light Reading that it now operates a satellite equipped with broadband potential. “Arianespace [a satellite launch company] successfully launched a ride-share rocket mission that included a Facebook...

RigNet, Inc. has received a multi-year contract with what it calls one of the “largest contractors” in the offshore drilling industry to provide fully managed communications services and global satellite...

Cobham Satcom and Kepler Communications performed connectivity trials on Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network with Cobham’s SAILOR 600 VSAT Ku-band antenna system, demonstrating downlink rates of 150 Mbps and uplink...

SpaceX launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites early Tuesday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites took off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in...

OneWeb’s sale to the U.K. government and Bharti Global Limited has been approved. On Oct. 2, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed OneWeb’s...