Fall-out widens from competitive satellite comms market

Satellite connectivity services offer the chance to fill the gaps where traditional broadband and terrestrial mobile networks can’t reach, but the fighting over these potentially lucrative scraps of business is

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DARPA kicks off program to develop low-earth orbit satellite ‘Translator’

10 August, 2022 – DARPA has selected 11 teams for Phase 1 of the space-based adaptive communications node program, known as Space-BACN. Space-BACN aims to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications

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Viasat to consolidate and standardise broadband services billing ops with Netcracker

Netcracker Technology has announced that global communications company Viasat will standardise and consolidate its broadband services billing operations onto a single, global billing platform using Netcracker’s next-generation Digital Business Support System (BSS).

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Satellite broadband can compete with fibre and enable EU targets to be met, says Viasat chief

Evan Dixon, the managing director of Viasat Europe, tells George Malim that as European governments mandate broadband access for all and IoT applications demand pervasive connectivity, the costs and performance

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