Focus: Telecom

Eutelsat has joined other members of the satellite community in signing contribution agreements with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC). These contribution agreements are the final steps in operationalizing the Crisis Connectivity Charter signed in late 2015 between the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), the Global VSAT Forum...

In terms of demand, Asia leads the way in satellite broadband. It’s purely a numbers game and Asia certainly has the numbers — as long as they refer to population and households, that is. If referring to U.S. dollar figures, then it’s a different story, one that has the United States as the protagonist. According...

SES and Hispasat, along with other members of the satellite community, have signed a contribution agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), stepping up its commitment to support global disaster relief. The contribution agreements are an important step in operationalizing the Crisis Connectivity Charter signed...

Scalable Network Technologies, a provider of multi-domain network design and optimization tools, has been supporting the high-fidelity undersea communications and networking simulation/emulation tool developed for the Forward Deployed Energy and Communications Outpost (FDECO) program. Multiple mission scenarios involving shore command centers, ships, submarines, Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) and forward deployed outposts...

Professional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider SatADSL, Global Telesat, a provider of telecommunication services in rural and challenging locations, and satellite operator RascomStar have announced a new partnership to offer affordable satellite broadband connectivity across Africa. Under the agreement, Global Telesat will manage the services from its teleport facilities in Alicante, Spain. From there,...

Inmarsat has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in conjunction with Tillman Digital Cities and CivicConnect, to accelerate the development and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with the Smart Africa Alliance. The Smart Africa Alliance is a partnership bringing together 22 African countries committed to the Smart Africa Manifesto and is...

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development at its 2018 spring meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on Sunday and Monday, committed to concrete actions that will advance the roll-out of broadband around the world — and with it, much-needed digital connectivity, which is necessary for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). During the...

Telefonica’s wholesale business unit, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, has completed the final stage of the automation and simplification of all its operations across some of its most demanded services, including Internet Protocol over a Virtual Private Network (IP/VPN), Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) or Broadband, Ethernet, Colocation, Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Next-Generation Network (NGN) voice, satellite and...

At the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Summit in London last week satellite should have been front and center but it was only mentioned a handful of times, even though the event focused on bringing connectivity to rural and underserved communities across the globe...

Intelsat CEO Steve Spengler details pilot program to connect remote areas – Bufundi in Rubanda & Kibuku in Ntoroko – in Uganda. Partnering with MTN & @GilatSatNet, the project will deploy IntelsatOne Mobile Reach Solar 3G services via #Intelsat37e #satellite. @UCC_Official pic.twitter.com/DEF8jbMgXE — Intelsat (@INTELSAT) May 4, 2018 Intelsat has announced that Uganda’s Communications Commission...