Over the weekend, NASA successfully launched into space three satellites consisting mainly of smartphones. The PhoneSats, have been transmitting signals to ground stations on Earth and will remain in orbit for as long as two weeks (#NASA_PhoneSat). The Phonesats took off from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia with three satellites; PhoneSat 1.0, dubbed [...]
Dish offered to buy Sprint for $25.5 billion in cash and stock on Monday, which Dish says beats the $20 billion offer from Japan’s Softbank. Sprint had accepted the Softbank offer and was expecting to close on it this summer. The Dish deal would create a unique combination of pay-TV and wireless operator. Dish hopes [...]
Dish Network now has a record $10 billion in cash in hand, about as much as oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil, according to Bloomberg, and no one in the industry really seems to know what Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen plans to do with all the money. DISH Network offered $2.3 Billion in Senior Notes [...]
The SATELLITE 2013 conference (twitter) kicked off Monday, March 18 with a pre-conference focusing on the industry’s latest technical and engineering challenges. The 32nd annual conference will be held March 18-21 in Washington, D.C. This year’s annual event will attract more than 12,000 delegates from 75 countries and features more than 350 exhibiting companies plus [...]
Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading Mobile Satellite Services operator today announced a strategic partnership with AT&T, to provide outbound GSM roaming for voice and data services to Thuraya users across the United States. The roaming service, which commenced on March 15, 2013, allows Thuraya subscribers to roam seamlessly with their Thuraya XT-Dual handsets on the [...]
The CTIA is proposing the FCC open up some of the 2 GHz spectrum, which television broadcasters currently use for remote microwave links. The CTIA thinks about 15 Mhz could be auctioned off from their 85MHz allotment. In a letter to the FCC, CTIA identified 15 MHz of contiguous spectrum for mobile broadband: “CTIA believes [...]
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