Focus: Telecom

Scandinavian hybrid satellite router and broadband solution provider Forsway is expanding its operations in North America and opening a sales office in Dallas, Texas, the company announced April 11. Forsway said the new office would help accelerate new business and growth opportunities in North America, Forsway’s U.S. Regional Manager Faith Wright will lead its new...

NSR’s Wireless Backhaul and 5G via Satellite 13th Edition report forecasts over $32 billion in revenue by 2028, with 5G supporting a third of the overall satellite backhaul market. According to the report, Mobile Wireless Backhaul is the largest opportunity in this space, as satcom becomes a mainstream solution and 5G opens opportunities for satellite...

The global cruise line industry will host more than 30 million passengers in 2019, a first-time milestone breakthrough, according to a panel of executives from the world’s biggest cruise ship operators at the Seatrade event in Miami, Florida. Comparatively, cruise lines are catching up with the entire city of Las Vegas, which hosts 40 million...

Viasat is opening a new headquarters in Montes Urales, Mexico, located in the northwest part of Mexico City. The new facility will provide the satellite operator with a base to launch new connectivity services across Mexico. The opening of a new headquarters follows a year of  steady business for Viasat in Mexico. In April 2018, Viasat...

2Operate and GomSpace, together with Aarhus University, are working together to evaluate how existing telecom standards and existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions can be leveraged to manage future satellite constellations. The companies will be working within the MegaMan project, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, As part of the collaboration, the partners have successfully evaluated 2Operate’s existing AI-based 2Solve...

The kids were more than all right at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, as four speakers with a combined age of less than 60 made a lasting impression on the audience of the event’s day-three morning conference session. Emma Yang, a 15-year-old entrepreneur from New York City, is the creator of an app called Timeless,...

The rise and rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was at the heart of many keynote presentations on day one of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. José María Álvarez-Pallete López, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telefonica — one of the world’s biggest telcos — spoke of how networks will get smarter as they become...

The C-Band Alliance (CBA), containing SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Telesat, is still optimistic that its proposal for the re-allocation of valuable C-band spectrum in the United States will be successful. However, anyone who thought this would be a rare event where the wireless and satellite industries work together, may have to take a step back. T-Mobile (T-MO)...