Globalstar confirmed itself as the service provider behind the new feature
Apple this week unveiled the iPhone 14. The company will begin taking orders for it later this month, with delivery of some models beginning in September and continuing through October. Confirming rumors which first floated...
According to Lynk, only about 25% of the world’s landmass is served by terrestrial cell towers
BICS and Lynk Global have signed a satellite-direct-to-phone agreement to provide more robust cellular coverage, particularly in remote and rural communities.
“BICS firmly believes that connected communities are stronger communities,”...
The company is working Smart Communications to explore and demonstrate the capabilities of space-based 5G communications
According to its website, Virginia-based Omnispace is on a mission to create “the world's first truly global 5G network” by “united” mobile roaming with satellite technology. In service of this mission,...
The cell satellite service will leverage Nokia’s AirScale products
Nokia announced this week a five-year deal with AST SpaceMobile, the Texas firm with ambitions to build a space-based cellular broadband network accessible by standard 4G and 5G smartphones. Nokia isn’t flying into space with AST SpaceMobile, but...
5G connectivity delivered via low Earth orbit satellites could lead to 'global coverage' for 5G smartphones, said the companies
Ericsson, Qualcomm and French aerospace company Thales announced a collaboration to test and develop 5G connectivity using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. The companies said...
The European Space Agency said that these 5G-based experiments took place in January and February 2022
Engineers have connected Japan and Europe via space-enabled, next-generation 5G telecommunication links for the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a release.
The agency noted that the...
Cloud connectivity has been typically delivered via a combination of terrestrial wireline access and cell towers, feeding traffic into local, regional, nationwide and global fiber networks. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of international traffic today is being transported by a global mesh of submarine telecom...
Starlink sees a 10 Mbps dip in median speeds for US users, compared to the second quarter of this year
New data from Ookla shows a slight decrease in Starlink's speeds during the third quarter of this year, which could be due to bringing on...
LOS ANGELES – During a Mobile World Congress Los Angeles (MWC LA) keynote presentation, Verizon and Amazon announced plans to integrate Verizon's 5G wireless network with Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The pair are kicking the partnership off with backhaul...
The launch included the Star One D2 satellite and the Eutelsat Quantum satellite
Last week, Arianespace successfully launched a pair of communications satellites — Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum — into geostationary orbit around the Earth for two of the company’s customers: Embratel, the...
The new capabilities are expected to be available in the second half of 2021
Under a new partnership, SpaceX — Elon Musk’s private American aerospace company — will begin to locate its Starlink ground stations within Google Cloud’s data center properties. This, say the companies,...
It is rare for a technology or service to evoke extreme opinions as LEO satellite constellations do. On the one hand, some would say that no constellation has managed to avoid bankruptcy. On the other hand, some believe that LEO satellites will eliminate the...
Semtech exec: 'When you build solutions for massive IoT, you need to scale'
Semtech recently announced that its LoRa devices have been integrated into U.S.-based startup Swarm Technologies’ growing global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network that enables two-way communications to and from its satellites...
Canadian satellite operator Telesat is joining the battle for low-earth-orbit-based broadband services, announcing today that it has selected a vendor to manufacture the nearly 300 LEO satellites that will form the initial basis for its new Lightspeed LEO network.
Thales Alenia Space will build...
The first phase of the C Band auction, which involved spectrum between 3.3–4.2 GHz, wrapped up in mid-January, raking in an astounding $80.92 billion in bids, making it the most profitable spectrum auction in history. According to Stealth Communications’ President & CEO Shrihari Pandit, there...
2020 trends show a serious 'pivot' in connectivity testing
RCR Wireless News caught up with test and measurement company Spirent Communications' head of 5G strategy, Steve Douglas, to discuss some of the connectivity trends that the company saw unfold throughout 2020, as well as what...
The joint purchase will allow OneWeb to complete construction of a global satellite constellation
India’s Bharti Enterprises and the U.K. government have jointly purchased the bankrupt London-based satellite operator OneWeb. Both buyers will invest about $500 million in the satellite operator, and the U.K. government...
At least 400 Starlink crafts are needed for SpaceX to provide minimal internet coverage, says Musk
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private American aerospace company, yesterday launched an additional 60 Starlink satellites into orbit, bringing the total number of satellites in the Starlink constellation to 422. That's...
Terrestrial and satellite networks have progressed along their independent path, rarely intersecting. However, the new generation of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are poised to change the economics of space-based networks. This promises new services and deployment models that could have major impact...
There was some head-scratching when French IoT operator Sigfox revealed a 2023 target of one billion connections. But there is no doubting the company’s canny ability to spot new IoT use cases, sometimes staring us in the face all along.
The firm has just announced...
Satellite connectivity, spurred by new projects from the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, will support 24 million IoT connections by 2024, bringing new competition to established IoT technologies like LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT.
While the burgeoning IoT market scratches it head at the array of...
