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Satellite Connectivity
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CASE FILE
A weather-data test belongs inside St Brandon’s universal-service deal
Mauritius’s two-year, USF-funded internet contract for Raphael Island is presented as a connectivity project. Its harder public test is whether the service helps restore a usable weather-observation chain and whether the regulator reports how it measures that result.
History
Beyond the Islands, Still Through the Hub: ALOHA’s 1971–74 Satellite Experiment
ALOHAnet began as an answer to a local problem: how could terminals scattered across Hawaiian islands reach computing resources without giving every terminal a permanent circuit? By 1974, the project was testing a second answer. A NASA satellite could carry bursts between distant…
History
The Dish Had a Lender; the Circuit Had a Sponsor: Mongolia’s Internet Bargain, 1996
Mongolia’s first permanent Internet route was built with two different kinds of money: a local revolving loan for the satellite equipment and a proposed outside subsidy for the monthly circuit. The distinction explains both how the gateway became possible and why a working…
History
Uganda’s First Full IP Link Was a Kampala Gateway
Uganda’s 1995 Internet milestone began with an international satellite route, but the first full-IP service still entered users through a Kampala provider. The distinction matters: a new path to the global network was not yet a national access network.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
WRC-27’s satellite IoT plan meets Britain’s rail and emergency spectrum
The next World Radiocommunication Conference will study new spectrum for low-data-rate satellite IoT. In Britain, the same bands already sit beside DECT, a planned railway network and emergency-service gateways. The question is whether new satellite use can be made compatible…
Story
A new individual draft points to IPv6. ARIN’s space policy still includes IPv4
ARIN’s current space-address proposal still names both IPv4 and IPv6. September records point toward an IPv6-only direction and a separate IANA/NRO allocation model, but neither record is an adopted change.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
A satellite beam is not a service permit: TATT’s landing-rights proposal
TATT’s September draft would place a national space-station registry before satellite operators supply capacity to local earth stations, then let gateway location and customer type shape later concessions. The first consultation closes on 19 October; none of these proposed rules…
North America National Telecom Trends
Gilat’s $8m-plus order tests SATCOM’s value after deployment
Field services and upgrades for deployed military communications systems extend Gilat DataPath’s work beyond equipment delivery. The order is a useful lifecycle signal, but the public record does not yet show recurring revenue or attractive margins.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC Authorizes Separate SpaceX D2D Constellation of 15,000 Satellites, Distinct From January’s Gen2 Approval
The FCC’s October 6, 2026 authorization establishes a separate direct-to-device satellite system rather than expanding the Gen2 Starlink broadband constellation approved in January. Although both systems have authorization ceilings of 15,000 satellites, the new D2D grant carries…
North America National Telecom
Gogo’s $15m GEO renewal is a signal, not a run-rate
Gogo says an overseas government customer renewed a geostationary satellite communications lease worth more than $15 million. Without a term, aircraft count or annual schedule, the announcement signals retention but cannot be translated into recurring revenue.
North America National Telecom Trends
SpaceX’s 800 MHz deal runs on two different FCC clocks
Grain’s definitive agreement makes SpaceX the proposed buyer of a nationwide low-band portfolio, but the ownership transfer still needs FCC consent. A separate process governs whether the 800 MHz licenses can carry satellite-to-phone traffic; the October 6 constellation order…
North America National Telecom Trends
Three carriers agree a satellite JV; existing deals stay separate
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon now have a joint-venture agreement and a founder-representative board. Yet the companies say their existing carrier-satellite agreements will remain in place, leaving the route from governance to one customer-facing platform open.
North America Regional ISP
Hughes After the Spectrum Sales: Chapter 11 and the Starlink Feeder
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the satellite broadband unit of EchoStar, filed for Chapter 11 on August 3, 2026 — a reorganization that arrives only after EchoStar ceded roughly 115 MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T under FCC-approved sales, and after a referral arrangement began…
North America National Telecom Trends
Spire won $33.2 million from NOAA. The other half still needs an order
The announcement contains a funded weather-data stream, a dormant surge switch and a very large shared procurement roof. Treating all three as one contract number erases the part that NOAA still controls.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
U Mobile's three-day 5G site starts a longer continuity test
A portable mast can shorten the wait for first coverage. It cannot shorten every obligation that begins when people rely on it. U Mobile and ZTE have shown how to start one kind of rural site in three days; the market question is how the site behaves through the weeks, weather…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Rocket Lab sold the shares and retired the bridge; Iridium is still unbought
A US$1.944 billion share sale and a lender consent have made the proposed Iridium purchase financeable without Rocket Lab's US$3.6 billion bridge. They have not transferred the satellite operator, and the four ledgers now move on different clocks.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange commissions Telesat Lightspeed gateway
Orange and Telesat have commissioned Lightspeed’s first European gateway in France ahead of the constellation’s planned 2028 commercial launch.
History
Gladys West’s 1982 Earth Ellipsoid Was a Geodetic Receipt, Not a GPS Blueprint
When Gladys B. West died on January 17, 2026, Virginia’s General Assembly memorialized a career whose satellite-geodesy work had become shorthand for the foundations of GPS. That shorthand is useful only if its evidentiary limits remain visible. West’s 1982 paper, “Mean Earth…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telesat Has a Commissioned Gateway, Not Yet a Live Lightspeed Service
Orange and Telesat have turned their Bercenay-en-Othe hosting agreement into a commissioned piece of European ground infrastructure. That is a real change in the programme’s physical state. It is also only one link in a chain that still needs production satellites, a working…
Global National Telecom Trends
WRC-27 weighs new spectrum rules for D2D
WRC-27 will consider new spectrum rules for satellite links to ordinary mobile devices as regulators work through interference, licensing and cross-border coordination.