SpaceBridge Inc., a manufacturer of High Throughput Satellite (HTS)/VHTS Broadband VSAT Satellite Network Platforms, and Xiplink, the leading provider of Radio Access Network (RAN) Optimization and Acceleration today jointly announced a technology partnership.

​The next World Radiocommunication Conference, WRC-23, will take place between 20 November and 15 December 2023, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) confirmed today following a consultation with the ITU Member States around the world.

The conference, where governments, regulators and industry gather to update the ITU Radio Regulations, will take place in one of the main cities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), either Abu Dhabi or Dubai.

NSR’s new report Software-Defined Satellites (SDS) sees growing satellite flexibility requirements trigger an $86.9 Billion cumulative revenue opportunity by decade’s end. Non-GEO- HTS constellation satellites will lead uptake with 95% demonstrating full or partial flexibility as software-defined platforms by 2030. However, operator hesitancy s

Satellite operator Intelsat S.A. (OTC: INTEQ) announced today that Chief Executive Officer Stephen Spengler has decided to retire as CEO upon the company’s emergence from its financial restructuring process and the naming of a successor. Until that time, Spengler will continue as CEO and lead Intelsat through the final stages of this process, ensuring a smooth transition. 

Kim Creaven has been appointed as Director of Advertising Sales at Panasonic Avionics. Reporting to Andrew Mohr, Panasonic Avionics’ Vice President, Digital Solutions, Creaven, who joins from Anuvu where she was Vice President of Sales, Strategy and Partner Marketing, serve as the organisational lead for all Panasonic Avionics’ market-driven, advertisin

The Red Eléctrica Group, through HISPASAT, the Spanish telecommunications operator, Red Eléctrica de España, the electrical system operator and transporter, and Elewit, the Group’s technological platform, has carried out a pilot project on the Red Eléctrica's substation in Galapagar (Madrid) to demonstrate the viability of the use of high-voltage electrical infrastructure to provide satellite connectivity that extends cellular and broadband coverage in rural and remote environments that the power lines run through.

 The global COVID pandemic has changed how content is consumed and distributed globally.  With restrictions to movement in place and many working from home, there has been a marked increase demand for high quality broadband services and content. The challenge to content owners and service providers is to deliver what their audiences want, when they want it, where they want is in the most reliable and cost-effective manner. 

Hungaro DigiTel Kft. (HDT), a joint subsidiary of 4iG PLC (75%) and Antenna Hungária Zrt. (25%), has entered into a final agreement with Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) to acquire a 51% stake in the company. Spacecom, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, is a satellite operator and service provider with a global coverage, consisting of four geosynchronous satellites, which provides its services in Hungary and the Central and Eastern European region via the AMOS 3 satellite.

As facilitated by GVF, the editor-in-chief of this publication, Virgil Labrador, will be presenting a business outlook analysis during the SatExpo Summit at CABSAT 2021 and asking, “What are satellite operators betting on?” With the digitalization of all industries, and changes in the way we live, work, learn, communicate and consume entertainment, Virgil Labrador will examine how satellite operators can make sure they are developing the right offerings and targeting the right sectors to compete and thrive in an increasingly crowded market, a market which continues to thrive in GEO, expand

Satellite operator SES recently announced that it was seeing strong uptake for its Cloud Playout service, as customers embraced it for management and playout of linear TV channels over satellite.  Creating the service was a shrewd move for a satellite operator that generates 60% of total sales from its video business.  After initial resistance, US and European broadcasters have been shifting media management and playout to the cloud to take advantage of its robust content management and scheduling applications and the scalability of the cloud.  In its press release, SES cited an Ethiopian b