Focus: Telecom

Cubans and visitors to Cuba will have improved access to connectivity throughout the main island of Cuba as Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA), Cuba’s national telecommunications operator, signed...

On the heels of SES announcing its support of Intel and Intelsat’s joint 5G spectrum sharing proposal, T-Mobile has released a note outlining its skepticism. The wireless operator seems most...

Hispasat has selected Gilat Satellite Network’s platform for a multi-million dollar project to provide broadband commercial services in Mexico using Hispasat’s Ka-band capacity on the Amazonas 5 High Throughput Satellite (HTS). Gilat’s...

SES announced that Palau Telecoms, which has leveraged SES Networks’ fleet since 2014, will be extending its contract until 2020 and increasing the amount of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) connectivity...

Clyde Space has secured its first launch contract, a follow-on order from an initial 6U satellite purchase from Israeli company NSLComm. Under the contract, Clyde Space is delivering an end-to-end...

Vector and Open Cosmos announced an agreement to reserve five orbital launches between 2019 and 2023 on the Vector-R launch vehicle. The announcement comes in advance of Vector’s first orbital...

Northern Sky Research’s (NSR) China Satcom Markets (CSM) report finds a Chinese satellite industry primed to take a larger share of the global satcom market through attractive one-stop-shop offerings, aggressive growth...

Lockheed Martin has chosen CommAgility to supply integrated software and hardware for a yet-disclosed satellite communications project. CommAgility is supplying a customized version of its SmallCellPHY software, which is a...

SatADSL, a provider of Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services via satellite, announced a new service for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) which will enable them to deliver satellite-based connectivity without...

The people who define 5G this way aren’t wrong, they’re just basing their definition on history. The jump from 3G to 4G (now almost a decade ago) was much easier...