Focus: Telecom

Omantel Wholesale has selected NorthTelecom to grow its satellite footprint with additional transponders to enhance its Ku-band satellite capacity. The agreement increases Omantel Wholesale’s satellite capabilities and gives its customers increased redundancy and resiliency across its global network. It also enables Omantel Wholesale to add Ka-band network capacity if required in the future. Its agreement with...

Australian Internet of Things (IOT) startups Cog and Fleet have partnered to advance satellite-connected IOT device security. Fleet will use Cog’s D4 Secure platform on trial projects globally. Cog’s D4 Secure platform will be used during the trial to provide radio isolation, proactive kernel protection, and a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel for secure data...

Oceaniac regional operator Our Telekom expanded its partnership with SES Networks to improve mobile and internet services within the Solomon Islands archipelago. The agreement includes contracted capacity on SES’ Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) fleet. Our Telekom and SES already established a 4G/LTE network across the Solomon Islands using the O3b Networks Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)...

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group will provide high-speed satellite internet service to more than 75 health centers across the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The South East Asian nation will use the internet service to launch and expand a national digital health registration software system by the end of July. “The internet connection is crucial in helping...

Measat has deployed the first iDirect DVB-S2X network in Malaysia in a bid to bring scalable and affordable satellite broadband internet services to the country. The platform allows Measat to tap into new markets and take advantage of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) opportunities in a cost-effective manner. Complementing existing terrestrial connectivity, the new service provides...

With its new iQ 200 Series, iDirect has unveiled its latest next-generation DVB-S2X iQ remote portfolio. The iQ 200 will be available in rackmount and board variants, with a full market release in the third quarter of 2018. This new remote features speed, efficiency and affordability of satellite connectivity to maritime, cellular backhaul and enterprise...

Telecommunications is one of the fundamentals tools to drive a country’s development. With more coverage, there is more access to information, more integration, better opportunities, and more equality. And in the Latin American countries which have great geographical complexities, the new generation of satellite connectivity services, which are more cost accessible, easy to implement and...

AT&T is stepping up its efforts in the connected transportation area after recently signing a deal with Honeyell, which will see Honeywell deploy AT&T Internet of Things (IOT) technology to Honeywell’s connected freight and connected aircraft solutions. Joe Mosele, vice president of IOT solutions and business development at AT&T, told Via Satellite about the potential AT&T...

On Tuesday, security company Symantec confirmed that a sophisticated hacking campaign was mounted from Chinese computers, affecting satellite operators, defense contractors and telecom companies in the United States and Southeast Asia. Symantec explained that the hackers were driven by national espionage goals such as intercepting military and civilian communications. Such interception capabilities are rare but...

Growing demand for broadband has prompted The Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to deliver enhnced mobile broadband and internet services to residents across the French Polynesian territory through a new partnership with SES Networks. Under the new agreement, OPT will access the NSS-9 satellite’s C-band coverage to reach the Polynesian archipelago...