Wireless companies are piling pressure on C-band’s incumbent operators, claiming a proposal they lodged with the FCC to open it up for terrestrial use is insufficient for 5G needs and potentially illegal. Wireless giantT-Mobile wants…

Data centre providers are increasingly looking to hybrid cloud technology opportunities as enterprises exit self-owned facilities to meet the changing customer needs. Switch CEO Thomas Morton believes more corporations will be transitioning into hybrid cloud facilities, boosting its colocation...

Soaring competition for increasingly popular VSAT technology in maritime points to a looming battle for market share in connectivity and equipment. Revenues in MSS operator Inmarsat’s maritime business fell….

For decades there has been a plethora of ways to connect M2M and IoT devices – satellite, GSM 2G, LTE, NB-IoT and LPWA. Satellite-based M2M has gone from strength to strength throughout the development of all these new forms of IoT connectivity. With a 5G world around the corner, what opportunities will there be for players throughout the IoT satcom value chain to grow and...

Increasing demand for indoor connectivity solutions has attracted macro-towerco SBA Communications to explore new revenue opportunities in a market that has been consolidating. It has been quietly looking into rooftop and exterior wireless management, small cell solutions, and in-building...

The rush of operators to HTS is showing no sign of abating as data traffic migrates away from regular satellites, highlighting GEO’s advantages over competing orbits amid payload trends pointing to continued activity. The shift towards HTS satellites has its critics, as some see the systems as eroding…

The growing need to optimise the storage, delivery, and analysis of data is pushing satellite operators into buying cloud providers and related technology to bolster their emerging capabilities. Cloud computing lies at the heart of an emerging ‘satellite big data’ ecosystem, promising huge revenue potential as connectivity technologies converge and all industries move towards...

MSS operators are seeking greater integration with other connectivity platforms in the emerging 5G ecosystem amid heady market projections but ongoing challenges, new milestones and mixed results. The MSS market is expected to register a compound annual growth rate of more than…