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5th December, 2023 (0 Comments)
Satellite operator OneWeb (Eutelsat) is working with the Imperial College London (ICL) in England on a new project that will explore the possibility of harnessing the company’s ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to help monitor global space weather, which may in turn help to protect other satellites and ground services.
18th November, 2023 (34 Comments)
Starlink’s (SpaceX) global constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are in the process of introducing new (third-generation) terminal hardware for homes, which promises higher performance (speeds) and more durability for new customers taking their standard plans. But it’s not all good news.
15th November, 2023 (4 Comments)
Customers travelling on ships belonging to the Ambassador Cruise Line, which is a British cruise line with its HQ in Purfleet (Essex), may be pleased to know that their onboard WiFi connectivity will soon be getting faster broadband speeds after the company adopted Starlink’s constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.
27th October, 2023 (12 Comments)
OneWeb (Eutelsat), CGI and Icomera have just conducted their first demonstration of connecting a moving railway train in North Yorkshire (England), which harnessed backhaul capacity via their constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to feed onboard connectivity via a 5G mobile network.
26th October, 2023 (3 Comments)
European space operator Eutelsat has today announced that their new Konnect VHTS (Very High Throughput) broadband satellite, which was launched into orbit a year ago, has now successfully moved into live service from its orbital position at 2.7°E – covering much of the UK, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
19th October, 2023 (0 Comments)
Eutelsat OneWeb has announced that its global constellation of ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has, via a demonstration that was set up in Surrey (England), successfully connected to a 5G mobile network as part of a pilot. But the technical details of this test remain unclear.
18th October, 2023 (0 Comments)
Ofcom has today begun seeking feedback on the possibility of releasing another chunk of the 1.4GHz radio spectrum band – specifically the 25MHz slice of frequency between 1492-1517MHz – for use by modern 4G, 5G or even future 6G based UK mobile and mobile broadband networks.
12th October, 2023 (2 Comments)
SpaceX’s global network of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) have just moved a step closer to launching their new ‘Direct to Cell‘ product, which will harness that same network in order to deliver a 4G mobile service to unmodified Smartphones across the world (regulation and ground stations allowing).
6th October, 2023 (11 Comments)
Internet giant Amazon will today launch their first two prototype satellites – Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2 – into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as part of plans to test the technologies that will be used in Project Kuiper, which aims to loft a mega constellation of satellites to deliver ultrafast broadband and 4G/5G mobile across the world.
5th October, 2023 (2 Comments)
The Government has this morning announced that the UK is to join the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) and commit £70m to the Future Telecoms UKRI Technology Missions Fund (TMF) Programme. Both of which are intended to help research and develop the next generation of telecoms, broadband and 6G networks etc.
3rd October, 2023 (11 Comments)
A new report has revealed that the prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which was launched by AST SpaceMobile to provide 4G and 5G mobile (broadband) coverage to regular handsets on the ground, is so big that it outshines 99% of the stars visible from a dark location on Earth – that’s a problem.
28th September, 2023 (2 Comments)
European satellite operator Eutelsat has today announced the completion of their all-share combination with London-based broadband satellite operator OneWeb, which had been partly owned by the UK Government but will now become a subsidiary of the Paris-based operator.
19th September, 2023 (5 Comments)
AST SpaceMobile, which is backed by Vodafone and several other mobile operators around the world, has followed up their earlier achievements in two-way 4G calling by harnessing their prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to make the first space-based 5G internet voice call using a regular handset.
19th September, 2023 (9 Comments)
Internet benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular broadband and mobile speed testing service – Speedtest.net, has published their latest Q2 2023 report into the UK internet download, upload and latency performance of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellite network. Overall, it’s a story of small improvements.
13th September, 2023 (12 Comments)
SpaceX’s global network of Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites, which form part of a mega constellation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), appeared to suffer a major service outage at just after midnight (UK time) last night that lasted almost two hours before the situation returned to normal.
5th September, 2023 (8 Comments)
Space broadband provider OneWeb, which is part-owned by the UK government and typically offers its services to organisations rather than individuals (e.g. ISPs, businesses, governments, shipping etc.), has begun testing a new foldable, person portable User Terminal (UT) in London today.
5th September, 2023 (6 Comments)
Mobile operator Vodafone and Vodacom have today announced that they’ve agreed a “strategic collaboration” deal to harness Amazon’s future Project Kuiper constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites, which will be used to help extend the reach of their 4G and 5G networks across Europe and Africa.
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