Starlink
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Wireless Logic, a global IoT provider, has secured authorised reseller status for SpaceX’s Starlink.
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Virgin Media is using Starlink’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology to provide mobile backhaul for some of the country’s most remote locations to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has accused Telecom Italia (TIM) of obstructing the rollout of its high-speed Starlink satellite internet service in Italy according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s minister for communications and digitisation, has announced plans to licence satellite internet provider Starlink, less than one week after disruption to four subsea cables caused a major internet blackout in the country and across West and Central Africa.
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Starlink has unveiled a new community gateway product that it says allows local internet providers to distribute fibre-like speed connectivity to homes, businesses, and governments.
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Singtel will augment its maritime digital offerings with Starlink’s satellites to drive the adoption of digital solutions by ship owners and operators.
Forthcoming events
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BT and Elon Musk’s Starlink are in talks to cover rural parts of the UK with broadband and mobile services.
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TMobile has announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has launched the first Starlink satellites with direct to cell capabilities.
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Telecom services are slowly being restored to the Gaza strip after the most significant internet blackout since the conflict began occurred on Friday.
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A new webpage added to Starlink’s website has revealed that SMS services for its direct-to-cell solution will go live in 2024. Voice, data and IoT services will go live in 2025.
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Amazon’s low earth orbit satellite broadband initiative, Project Kuiper, launched two prototype satellites last Friday, marking the Starlink rivals first major mission.
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A Ukrainian official has slammed Elon Musk after claims emerged that the SpaceX owner ordered engineers to switch off Starlink satellites near Crimea to prevent a Ukrainian offensive on Russia.
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Service will be launched in 2024 and allow customers to send and receive SMS messages.
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Telefonica says it will join forces with Elon Musk-owned Starlink to provide connectivity to rural and remote customers.
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Starlink services were cut off by Musk during a planned drone strike, sparking fury from Ukrainian generals
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SC CapRock, the Brazilian subsidiary of Speedcast, through its long-term global agreement with Nokia to develop LTE private wireless networks, has inked a global agreement for the sale of Starlink’s corporate services.
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Telstra has unveiled a partnership with Starlink to deliver Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity for voice and fixed broadband services in remote and hard-to-reach places in Australia.
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After six month wait, Elon Musk’s satellite company adds another Central American market to its coverage.
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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.
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SpaceX is strengthening its programme to introduce satellite-to-cellphones services by stepping up recruitment.
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Hurtigruten Expeditions, a cruise ship company that specialises in the Arctic and Antarctic, has fitted SpaceX’s Starlink on its fleet.
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Internet speed monitor Ookla has found that speeds from SpaceX’s broadband satellite service Starlink is slowing down.
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Australian wholesaler Speedcast has added SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to the service providers it uses for the enterprise and maritime markets.
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The first satellite to test mobile phone services from space is due for launch this weekend.
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Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Mobile US is to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to expand coverage across rural parts of the US – and SpaceX wants to attract other mobile operators around the world.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application for US$885 million in federal subsidies that would see it provide satellite internet to rural areas.
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Nigerian customers of SpaceX’s Starlink service will pay only US$99 for their starter kit, only a sixth of the $599 that US customers have to pay.
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Ofcom says it is pondering a move to allow satellite operators to access more spectrum in order to offer broadband services to hard-to-reach areas.
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Regulators in Nigeria and Mozambique have approved the start of broadband satellite services via Starlink, part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Africa, much of South America, and all of Asia are still on the waiting list for coverage for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellite service.
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The Philippines will be the first country in south-east Asia to be served by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, the government has announced.
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Elon Musk and his launch company SpaceX are rescuing OneWeb in a deal to launch the rest of the company’s satellites.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is giving consumers across Europe faster speeds than fixed broadband, according to Ookla.
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Satellite company Iridium has reduced its quarterly loss to US$5.9 million, compared with $7.9 million in the previous year, and $107.9 million in the same quarter the year before.
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The European Union is moving ahead on its controversial plans to create a quantum-secure satellite system that will compete with Amazon’s Kuiper, OneWeb, SpaceX’s Starlink and others.
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Last month’s volcano destroyed or damaged more than 80km of subsea cable connecting the Pacific islands of Tonga to Fiji.
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service is offering a faster service, at 150-500Mbps, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of this year.
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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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Hughes Network Systems and Bharti Airtel have formed a JV to combine their VSAT operations to provide satellite broadband services in India.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet venture has been informed by the Indian government to refund all pre-orders in the country.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite project is giving faster speeds than fixed broadband from local telcos, according to research from Ookla.
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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.