News & Events

Liquid Telecom and Newtec executives at the contract signing. Photo: Newtec [Via Satellite 11-17-2015] Liquid Telecom, an independent data, voice and IP provider in eastern, central and southern Africa, has selected the Newtec Dialog multiservice platform from Newtec to enlarge and improve its current VSAT services. The company intends to use Newtec Dialog to expand its…

Photo: Amos 5 Coverage Map. Credit: Spacecom [Via Satellite 11-17-2015] Spacecom has teamed up with Cameroon Internet Service Provider (ISP) Ringo to enable a large-scale cellular-satellite hybrid broadband Internet project using the Amos 5 satellite. Together, the companies are providing connectivity to more than 120 educational institutions, community centers, and rural villages. Spacecom’s hybrid service…

Screen capture of an Intelsat EpicNG rendition. Photo: Intelsat [Via Satellite 11-16-2015] Intelsat’s latest EpicNG deal with SkyPerfect JSAT was not easy to do and in fact took well over a year to complete, according to Bruno Fromont, senior vice -president of strategy and asset management at Intelsat. Fromont told Via Satellite that Intelsat had…

Artist’s rendering of an Iceye satellite. Photo: Iceye [Via Satellite 11-16-2015] Iceye, a startup developing radar-imaging microsatellites, has gained $2.8 million in Series A funding, led by True Ventures, with participation from Lifeline Ventures and Founder.org. This follows approximately $2.8 million in Research and Development (R&D) funding from SME Instrument within the European Union’s (EU) Horizon…

New service to contribute to bridging the digital divide across Myanmar. Photo: iStock/Eutelsat [Via Satellite 11-16-2016] Bluewave, a local telecoms operator in Myanmar, has selected Eutelsat’s IP Easy solution to jumpstart a new satellite broadband service throughout the country. Commercialized from today, the service will offer speeds of up to 12 Mbps and will be…

Site view of the Mona Island GPS and seismic integrated station. Photo: USGS [Via Satellite 11-16-2015] Signal Mountain Networks and Hughes Network Systems have completed a managed satellite network at 80 sites for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Under the contract, Signal Mountain and its subcontractor, Hughes, are providing the USGS with ongoing satellite…

Much of the greater Arab Maghreb region as seen by the Suomi NPP satellite. Photo: Norman Kuring, NASA GSFC [Via Satellite 11-16-2015] Yahlive, through a new partnership with Paris-based Sahli Media Group, has launched a bouquet of 43 channels for the Greater Arab Maghreb region. The Free-to-Air (FTA) channels include news, entertainment and lifestyle content.…

WRC-15 Plenary on global flight tracking. Photo: ITU [Via Satellite 11-13-2015] The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has reached an agreement to allocate radiofrequency spectrum for global flight tracking in civil aviation. The frequency band 1087.7 to 1092.3 MHz has been allocated to the aeronautical “Earth-to-space,” Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) for satellite reception of Automatic Dependent…

Artist’s rendition of the Thaicom 7 satellite. Photo: Thaicom [Via Satellite 11-13-2015] A multi-transponder order from Grant Investrade Ltd (GIL) on Thaicom 7 has filled out all the remaining available capacity on the satellite, Thaicom announced Nov. 12. The company is using C-band capacity to provide digital cable TV services through a Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) system.…

Photo: Indi Samarajiva (Flickr) [Via Satellite 11-13-2015] Several international organizations including the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the World Broadcasting Unions (WBU), NetHope, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and the Space Frequency Coordination Group (SFCG),…