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Falklands unhappy over OneWeb
Eutelsat’s share price meltdown continues and not helped by a group of unhappy residents of the UK’s Falkland Islands. Local reports say that the Falkland Islands government “wants its money back” from an agreement which it entered into with local telco SURE and which provides national and international fixed line, mobile data and broadband services…
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Vodafone, AST test video call game changer
Last week a Vodafone engineer, Rowan Chesmer, somewhere in the middle of Wales and very much in a dead zone for cellular connectivity, used an AST SpaceMobile satellite to send a video call to Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle and British astronaut Tim Peake. The demonstration led to some enthusiastic celebrations from AST themselves and…
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EnSilica awarded £10.3m funding from UK Space Agency Award
EnSilica, a chip maker of mixed signal ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), has been awarded £10.38 million (€12.4m) funding over the next three years from the UK Space Agency for a development project under its Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit (C-LEO) programme. EnSilica put forward in its application a business case supported by letters of…
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AST SpaceMobile announces FCC grant of STA
AST SpaceMobile has announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted the company Special Temporary Authority (STA) authorising testing service in the US. This approval enables AST SpaceMobile’s first five commercial BlueBird satellites, operating in low Earth orbit today, with unmodified smartphones in AT&T and Verizon premium low-band wireless spectrum supporting voice, full data,…
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Data: UK SVoD homes dip; Ad-tier take up continues
Barb, the UK organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings, has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20 million UK homes (68.3 per cent) had access to an SVoD service in Q4 2024. This is a slight dip from 20.1 million UK homes (68.8 per cent) in Q2. Barb has again shared…
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Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post
Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers. The…
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Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post
Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers. The…
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Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post
Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers. The…
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Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post
Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers. The…
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Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post
Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost The Trump administration’s program to shake up media representation at official briefings and press calls in Washington is set to affect the Pentagon, with credentialed media being rotated out of assigned workspaces for media newcomers. The…