Focus: Broadband

Amazon is joining the race to provide broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), newly uncovered filings show. The effort, code-named Project...

Viasat and Expedition Communications partnered to deliver high-speed satellite internet to businesses and government agencies across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through this relationship, Expedition Communications will sell, install,...

Astranis Space Technologies is using Wind River‘s VxWork real-time Operating System (OS) for its next generation satellite that aims to deliver cost-effective high-speed internet to underserved markets. Wind River provides Internet of...

Hispasat and Mexican telecommunications company Wibo will offer broadband satellite and Internet Protocol (IP) phone services for the next three years to extend connectivity in Mexico. The companies are working...

SpaceX has promised to redesign its upcoming mega-constellation of internet satellites so that they cannot hurt anyone on Earth. In a meeting with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week,...

Tarana Wireless secured $60 million of financing with Khosla Ventures and EchoStar, as a follow-on to financing of $28 million led by 1010 Holdings, the family offices of Greg Wyler....

Hughes Network Systems and Indonesian telecommunication and information service provider PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) deployed their 2,000th Community Wi-Fi Hotspot in the country. With an average of 500 people having...

Global Invacom, a global provider of satellite communications equipment, partnered with Edgewater Wireless Systems for the further development of Broadcast WiFi (Bx-WiFi). This technology aims to enable live, high quality, and...

There is a gap running down the center of the world. A gap between the privileged, and those struggling for access. Access to good work, knowledge, and the means to...

OneWeb successfully launched its first six broadband satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred on Feb. 27 at 21:37 pm UTC....