The Outernet: "BitTorrent from space". You're having a laugh?
Down Under, telcos and services providers of every stripe are casting around for viable ways economically to bring increased broadband Internet access to stretched and stressed metropolitan networks...
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AT&TV? US giants team up
Carmen Shields (c) [CC BY 2.0] The US telecoms and TV markets are converging at a startling rate with the news that AT&T’s is in ‘active’ talks to buy DirecTV and that a deal worth US$50 billion...
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Inmarsat will track global commercial flights for free
Aero Icarus (c) [CC BY-SA 2.0] A British satellite communications company is offering the world's commercial airlines a free, global tracking and monitoring service to ensure that there will be no...
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Mind the revenue gap: M2M making good progress says Vodafone
via Flickr © quinn.anya (CC BY-SA 2.0) Many telcos see M2M/IoT as one really crucial area for them for the next phase of their collective business development. This idea - M2M and IoT as the telco...
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Ericsson gets contract extension for wirelessing up over a million Australian...
via Flickr © Phil Schubert (CC BY-ND 2.0) Ericsson has won an extension to its Australian fixed wireless and satellite deal, under which it is helping hook up a full 4 per cent of the Australian...
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Tesla electric car man has his eyes on the skies as well as the road
via Flickr NASA Goddard Photo (CC BY 2.0) Visionary entrepreneur, Elon Musk, the man behind the really rather splendid Tesla electric car, has his eyes on the skies as well as the road. In partnership...
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The Internet of Flying Things gets some extra attention in the wake of 2014’s...
via Flickr © dougkeeney (CC BY 2.0) It hasn’t been a very good year for aviation with the unprecedented loss of three large passenger jets - the only obvious common denominator was that they all...
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Inmarsat should complete its new broadband satellite constellation today
© Inmarsat Third and final Global Xpress satellite launchLaunch scheduled for 12:44pm (BST)Broadband speeds 100 times faster than previous Inmarsat servicesFull global service by end of 2015Inmarsat...
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Inmarsat to offer "The Internet of Everywhere", well, basically, everywhere
via Flickr © sam_churchill (CC BY 2.0) Announces global IoT and M2M strategyDeep partnerships with VARsSingle network and single SIMTwo dedicated new servicesSatellite communications services company...
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Australia’s NBN broadband satellite to connect 400,000 premises
NBN satellite launches from French Guiana Network deployments are almost always visually underwhelming with an excitement level somewhere between low and vanishing. After all, who wants to see cable...
View ArticleHP's Moonshot enables just-in-time transcoding for Envivio
Sabine Bravo, Marketing Director, Strategic Partnerships, Envivio Envivio works with operators from satellite, cable and telco markets and along with HP has developed just-in time-packaging and...
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IoT takes to the skies as Iridium looks to get in on the action
© Iridium Test of LoRaWAN backhaul communications over IridiumConstellation of 66 LEO satellites covering the globeStream Technologies considering its use for “pop-up” networksProgressive IoT platform...
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Benighted bits of Blighty get better bird-based broadband
via Flickr © chantrybee (CC BY 2.0) Subsidised satellite services come to the rescue of the digitally dispossessedBDUK Better Broadband scheme available to both homes and businessesCosts of equipment...
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Is China in the ascendency, literally and metaphorically?
Tiantong-01 launch © China Academy of Space Technology/Xinhua China's new comms satellite system launched...As Chinese investors spend more and more on US start-ups...Whilst also looking increasingly...
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Galileo: User tests before the end of the year but no full service before 2020
via Flickr © skpy (CC BY-SA 2.0) European Global Navigation Satellite System inches towards operational statusSoyuz gets the elbow as ESA's Ariane-5 rocket launches four satellite at a time18 out of...
View ArticleHPE and Inmarsat: Enabling the mass adoption of IoT
Nigel Upton, Director of Universal IoT Platform, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Paul Gudonis, President of Inmarsat Enterprise At the HPE Discover London event this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise...
View ArticleHPE and Inmarsat: Enabling the mass adoption of IoT
Nigel Upton, Director of Universal IoT Platform, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Paul Gudonis, President of Inmarsat Enterprise At the HPE Discover London event this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise...
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Smart Country: why agri-IoT is one to watch
via Flickr © donjd2 (CC BY 2.0) Agri-IoT driven by growing data requirementMonitoring and improving health and safety is the main priority in the deployment of IoTEnvironmental monitoring came in as...
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TV catches up: Sky plans to put all its channels online
via Flickr © mikecogh (CC BY-SA 2.0) Sky moves to create online distribution of core Sky TV serviceAlso launches streaming stick for Now TV to take on Amazon and GoogleIP version is to reach customers...
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SpaceX is rekindling memories of Iridium and the multi-billion dollar LEO...
© CC licences/TTV montage Wednesday is expected to see the launch of SpaceX’s broadband test birdsIt’s Elon Musk vs Masayoshi Son in the clash of the tech titansThe winner gets a global ISP in space;...
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