Topic
Satellite Connectivity
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Leaders
Wesley Eddy Can Park a Packet for Mars. The Route May Leave First.
A deep-space router may hold a packet for hours while an antenna waits for its next contact. Wesley Eddy's IETF architecture puts the hard decision at the forwarder: keep the packet, choose what to drop, and work out where to send it when the sky opens again.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Stops Making Satellite Downlink Match Its Uplink
A UK gateway may now ask for more receiving spectrum than transmitting spectrum. The old ratio has gone; the regulator still decides whether the site can coexist with its neighbours.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofcom Drafts a Ten-Path Bill for Satellite Gateways
The UK regulator has put legal text behind its plan to replace a £500 flat NGSO gateway fee. The proposed bill follows a site’s authorised radio paths, and Ofcom’s own three-band example reaches £20,900.
CASE FILE
The exchange in the name, the hub in the brochure
A Hong Kong company registered with APNIC as ASIX Asia Satellite Internet eXchange Ltd sells, by its own account, teleport capacity: dedicated satellite carriers, shared carriers scheduled from a hub, video uplink, ground support, co-location. That is a star with a ground station…
Global National Telecom Trends
Eutelsat’s backlog hit €12.1bn; three quarters is IRIS² construction
Eutelsat’s order book nearly quadrupled in one quarter, but the new bulk is a construction contract: €8.9bn of future IRIS² design and build revenue, mostly due for recognition in 2027–2031. The first quarter recorded €5.1m. Its Connectivity and Video service backlog was slightly…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Calls It a Spectrum-Fee Consultation. The New Question Is How You Pay.
Ofcom’s 30 October draft puts earlier satellite and railway fee decisions into regulations. The fresh choice is whether licences carrying bills above £75,000 should default to twelve monthly payments.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC’s 42 GHz draft: satellites get the downlink; mobile goes secondary
The FCC’s circulated proposal would give satellite gateway downlinks primary status across 500 MHz at 42 GHz, keep terrestrial fixed links primary too, and move mobile services to secondary. The coordination machinery that would make the sharing work is still for a later…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Unifique brings the 700 MHz. The gateway bill stays blank
Unifique and two other Brazilian mobile operators will supply their 700 MHz frequencies and pay for ground gateways in an AST SpaceMobile deal. The filing leaves Unifique’s own cost and launch schedule unwritten.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The Satellite Can Fly. Heathrow Still Gets a Say on the Ground.
Ofcom has opened more Ku- and Ka-band uplink spectrum to satellite terminals on aircraft and ships. A moving dish still travels through a rulebook: international coexistence conditions, a UK network licence and, at Heathrow, an airport coordination gate.
CASE FILE
A Satellite Slot Can Exist on Paper and Fail in the Sky. Doha Has Two Drafts for That.
Europe proposes a broad new ITU satellite resolution. Asia-Pacific wants to keep the yearly account of planned spectrum that developing countries struggle to use.
Africa National Telecom Trends
The Satellite Is in Orbit. Kenya’s Licence Stack Stays on the Ground.
The Communications Authority of Kenya has put a satellite-frequency rulebook out for comment. Its draft gives gateways, terminals and moving dishes different licence paths—and lets the spectrum clock follow a different service licence for each.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
A satellite learned to hear two sensors at once. The price tag stayed on the ground.
NTT and JAXA report up to 2.67× the SISO capacity in orbital tests, plus a same-frequency two-sensor demonstration. The next hard number is commercial: what a field operator would pay to use it.
North America National Telecom Trends
SpaceX Gets a Spectrum Report Card Instead of a Tower Deadline
The FCC has let three idle terrestrial licences change hands. In return, the new owner must show that phones can send data upward, on a schedule that gets less forgiving when it is missed.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Starlink’s UAE Permit Finally Leaves the Harbour
The older public licence stopped at the waterline. TDRA now describes a ten-year satellite permission spanning homes, businesses, government, ships and aircraft.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya Wants the Satellite Dish to Come With an Address Book
A beam can cross a border in milliseconds. Kenya's proposed satellite rules ask who keeps track of the equipment at the other end—and who answers when it causes trouble.
History
GPS Got Smarter. The Bucket Needed Instructions.
In May 2000, a better satellite signal helped turn a hidden bucket into an Internet invitation. Within days, the people discussing the hunt were wrestling with coordinates, an 80-character record and the surprisingly international politics of a gallon.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The City Pass Covers 8 GHz. One Satellite Downlink Still Needs an Invitation.
Ofcom has opened urban gateway applications across 68 high-density areas. Up to 8 GHz now has a standard route; one useful downlink band still asks each site to make its own case.
History
Tuvalu Set a July Internet Target. The IP Link Worked by October, 1999
A national deadline and an engineer’s dated network tests mark different stages: the plan targeted July; the international IP path was reported operating by mid-October.
Global Cloud Services
Intelsat: The European Commission Cleared It Unconditionally; the Price Is Still Unread
The acquisition of Intelsat Holdings S.à r.l. by SES S.A. has one instrument that can be quoted and several that cannot. The clearance carries a case number and a notification date. The price, the undertakings and the transferred licences carry a headline and nothing read behind…
History
Meridian’s first in-orbit activation is a test milestone, not a network launch
Meridian Space has put a proprietary communications payload into orbit and powered it on. Its satellite partner reports two-way contact with the spacecraft, but Meridian still described the first communications link through its own payload as a next step. That gap separates an…