Widespread distrust of corporate ESG reporting revealed
A new industry survey has found that most business leaders in major industries doubt their peers’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting.
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UK Space Agency dishes out £50 million in funding for comms satellites
£50 million of funding is on the table for ‘ambitious and innovative projects that will supercharge the UK’s satellite communications industry.’
New satellite IoT gateway deployed to fight poaching in Africa
Ground Control has developed a new satellite IoT gateway and trialled it in Central Africa as part of an exercise to combat poaching of endangered and monitored wildlife.
Microsoft partners with Viasat in a bid to improve global connectivity
US tech giant Microsoft has augmented its Airband initiative, designed to connect the unconnected, by partnering with satellite player Viasat.
Space Bureau to help FCC cope with skyrocketing satellite sector
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel wants to reorganise the US telco watchdog so it can do a better job of regulating the space industry.
Google spinoff aims to provide global connectivity with space lasers
A startup that uses novel connectivity technologies developed by Google promises to ‘revolutionize communications networks across land, sea, air, and space’.
FCC takes aim at space junk
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed new rules designed to tackle the growing problem of space debris.
Viasat boldly goes and splashes $7.3bn on Inmarsat
Two of the oldest names in satellite connectivity are coming together to create a behemoth that can go toe-to-toe with the growing number of upstarts aiming for the stars.
UK government backslapping audible from space after BT strikes OneWeb deal
BT has announced it will use OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network to one day offer connectivity services to consumers and businesses both at home and abroad.
European telcos turn to satellite connectivity
Two major European operators this week detailed plans to use satellite connectivity to cover difficult-to-reach customers.
Eutelsat rejects takeover bid from Altice owner
Eutelsat has turned down a takeover offer from French businessman Patrick Drahi, probably because his bid was not large enough to warrant further discussion.
KDDI to use Starlink for mobile backhaul
KDDI has contracted Starlink to provide satellite-based backhaul for mobile base station sites to remote areas.
NTT to launch data centres into space within five years
NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT have announced plans to work together to build an integrated computing network in space that will include, among other things, space-based data centres.
OneWeb continues Alaska, Arctic push with TrustComm buy
OneWeb has brokered a deal to acquire TrustComm, the US-based satellite services firm it partnered with a couple of months ago to further its push into the US government, looking particularly at northern latitudes.
SpaceX adds another 30,000 satellites to already ambitious plans
Elon Musk’s grand plan to dominate the skies just became a lot grander as another application emerges, this time to add 30,000 satellites to the SpaceX constellation.
Africa and the economics of satellites
Last week’s AfricaCom conference had a heavy focus on satellites but how many people actually understand the economics of satellite connectivity? We didn’t, so we asked Intelsat.
Virgin, Qualcomm in joint satellite connectivity venture OneWeb
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has joined forces with mobile chip vendor Qualcomm to create what they claimed will be the largest ever satellite network. The joint venture, OneWeb, will build, launch and operate the satellite constellation aimed at providing internet access and telephony to some of the world’s currently unconnected parts.
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5G Core – Digital Symposium
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OpenRAN World (co-located with the 6G Summit)
- 26-27 April 2023
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