LEO
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Satellite operator Telesat joined forces with SatixFy Communications to develop landing station baseband units for Telesat’s upcoming Lightspeed network. -
The rollout is expected to be completed continent-wide by December 2024, with services already operational in four African countries.
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Eutelsat Group has announced the signing of an exclusive distribution partnership agreement with Rawafed Libya for Telecommunications & Technology (RLTT), the Libyan telecoms operator, for the delivery of high-speed, low latency connectivity across Libya.
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OneWeb has signed a contract with Intellian for the supply of Intellian’s OW11FL user terminals, with mass-production beginning in Q4 2024.
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OQ Technology plans to grow its constellation from three to ten satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) this year.
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SpaceX’s Starlink is the fastest way to get broadband in eight European countries, but fixed broadband was faster in four more.
Forthcoming events
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Inmarsat, the company that is the subject of a US$7.3 billion takeover deal by Viasat, has started a 200-day process to put its latest satellite into service.
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Satellite company OneWeb finished 2021 on a high, with another successful launch, but the date of its commercial start is still unclear.
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BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later.
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Inmarsat says it has successfully activated a trial payload for its planned 5G satellite project, Orchestra.
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Low Earth orbit satellites are taking over and will become an integral part of the world’s telecoms infrastructure, with 50,000 of them by the end of the decade, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Telesat, which is planning to build a satellite network, Lightspeed, to rival OneWeb and SpaceX’s Starlink, will complete its merger with Loral Space & Communications next week.
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Amazon will launch its first two Project Kuiper satellites at the end of 2022, in preparation for its new 400Mbps network.
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Satellite company OneWeb is moving into Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East and east Africa following a deal with a local company.
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Telesat is to deploy routing and switching platforms from Ciena for its Telesat Lightspeed terrestrial backhaul network.
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Eutelsat, which last week rejected a takeover offer from Patrick Drahi, has raised its stake in satellite company OneWeb to almost 23%.
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Hanwha Systems, a South Korean electronics and military equipment company, has become the latest investor in OneWeb, the satellite operator.
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Satellite company Inmarsat has announced plans for a combined terrestrial and in-orbit 5G network aimed at high-density users and the maritime market.
