With transformation at the top of their agenda, business leaders are meeting at ConnecTechAsia, held in Singapore from 18 – 20 June 2019, to showcase and discover the latest technologies that promise to ready businesses for the future.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced the winners of the 24th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence during an exclusive luncheon at SATELLITE 2019. The awards are presented each year to organizations and individuals in the teleport industry whose achievements have been deemed exceptional by the international trade association and its awards committees, made up of industry members from across the globe.

The 2019 recipients are:

Independent Teleport Operator of the Year: Santander Teleport

Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, was today awarded with the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA)’s Top Infrastructure Award.

Presented at an exclusive ceremony taking place as part of SATELLITE 2019, the accolade was given to highlight the flexible merits of Newtec’s ability to deliver and enhance in-flight connectivity.

AvL Technologies will be holding a year-long celebration for the company’s 25 years in business. What began in 1994 as Jim Oliver’s humble one-man engineering company making custom broadcast antennas has flourished into a company with 250 employees and a technology campus with 100,000+ square feet of product development, manufacturing and testing space.

The satellite industry calendar for May and June 2019 will see two key events from the GVF-EMP Conference Partnership portfolio taken firstly to Aberdeen in Scotland and then to London.

Telesat reported consolidated revenues of US$164.85 million (Ca$222 million) during the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 4% or US$7.43 million (Ca$10 million) compared to the same period in 2018. But despite the drop, Telesat netted US$127.72 million (Ca$172 million) compared to a loss of US$11.14 million (Ca$15 million) in first quarter 2018.

April 24 is China Space Day in China, a day more or less on par with Earth Day (i.e. a sort of non-holiday formal day of observation), and one which is met with a corresponding conference and exhibition, held in unconventional cities, including Harbin (2018) and Xi’an (2017).

The world is full of sharp disparities between the privileged and those struggling for access: access to good work, to knowledge, to the means to pursue their calling and preserve their communities. Around the world, dedicated people are using technology to close that gap. Technology that is literally out of this world.

Building a Better Future in Africa

The teleport industry got its start in the days when monopoly telephone companies ruled and, in the US, COMSAT was the sole gatekeeper for access to domestic and international satellites.  Then the Reagan Administration’s Open Skies policy ended COMSAT’s lock on satellite access, and entrepreneurs jumped on the new opportunity.

Having worked at a teleport at the beginning of my career, I never miss an opportunity to visit one. Teleports remind me of the very exciting times I spent working in one. There is something about the mix of high technology and innovative, geeky engineers that never cease to amaze me, so when I was invited to visit a teleport in England I didn’t hesitate to accept. But nothing prepared me for what I was about to see…