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Soracom bundles Astrocast into ‘blended’ cellular-and-satellite IoT offer

KDDI-owned Soracom is offering satellite IoT connectivity via its global IoT connectivity platform, following a deal with Switzerland-based nanosatellite operator Astrocast. The deal enables Soracom to offer a “blended IoT connectivity solution”, it said, affording solution providers and enterprise customers a way to also...

RWE picks Inmarsat’s satellite IoT for hydro stations (and a good example of green IoT)

RWE has recruited Inmarsat to carry IoT data traffic from its hydroelectric power facilities in Snowdonia national park in northwest Wales over its new ELERA satellite service. The German energy company is among the first public references for Inmarsat’s ELERA system, which launched in...

Viasat buys Inmarsat for $7.3bn to forge global satellite broadband and IoT network

US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a “global high-capacity hybrid space and terrestrial network”, the pair said. It will focus on...

Investment in industrial IoT to trump cloud, security, analytics in next three years

New research from UK satellite company Inmarsat says IoT is set to overtake cloud computing as the primary Industry 4.0 technology, with enterprise IT investments in industrial IoT to trump everything else in the next three years, including next generation security, big data analytics,...

Hiber signs up to use Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite system for hard-to-reach IoT

Busy Dutch industrial IoT scale-up Hiber has announced it will use Inmarsat’s new ELERA satellite IoT network to expand its own low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network, which goes under the name Hiberband. The deal allows Hiber, founded in 2016, to “gain years in satellite...

NTIA asks FCC to reconsider Ligado license changes

NTIA asks for stay, reconsideration of L-Band license changes The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has asked the Federal Communications Commission to rethink its recent decision to modify Ligado Networks' spectrum licenses, warning that the changes "threaten to harm federal government users of the Global...

FCC approves Ligado’s use of L-band for IoT, 5G

The Federal Communcations Commission has voted unanimously to allow Ligado Networks to use L-Band spectrum at 1.6 GHz to provide a low-power terrestrial network aimed at supporting private 5G and industrial internet of things services. The FCC said in a release that granting Ligado's request...

FCC set to grant Ligado its long-awaited permission for a 5G network, over Pentagon pushback

  The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on granting Ligado Networks permission to use its midband spectrum holdings to deploy a combined satellite-and-terrestrial network for private 5G and industrial internet of things services. The FCC said it was circulating a draft order to approve...