![Lufthansa Books Passage on Inmarsat’s Global Xpress]()
PARIS — Europe’s largest commercial airliner, Lufthansa, on Oct. 20 contracted with mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat to use Inmarsat’s Ka-band Global Xpress satellite service on Lufthansa’s European fleet.
![Facebook, Eutelsat To Pay Spacecom $95M for Ka-band Lease]()
The lease of capacity on the Amos-6 satellite — about 18 gigabits per second of throughput — can be extended for up to two years at a reduced rate.
![Aero and Maritime Broadband Providers Expect Consolidation Despite Market Growth]()
The fixed-cost nature of buying satellite capacity argues so heavily for fewer and larger service providers that some see consolidation as inevitable.
![OmniAccess To Lease Bandwidth from Panasonic Avionics]()
The Spanish maritime satellite communications provider said it would deploy the capacity on its existing fleet of more than 250 ships and would explore ways to work with Panasonic in aeronautical broadband delivery as well.
![As it Eyes Expansion, Gogo Says U.S. Market Share is Secure]()
The company says the $130,000 in annual revenue it receives per connected plane now is likely to rise to close to $1 million per plane in 20 years.
![Op-ed | Consumers Win in a Competitive Space-based Broadband Race]()
Right now, several companies, notably OneWeb and SpaceX, are working to launch massive satellite constellations into space to provide super-fast Internet virtually anywhere on Earth. It remains a question whether the path to the new era of space-based connectivity will be spurred by healthy commercial competition or regulatory turf wars over satellite spectrum.
![Broadband Providers Brook No Concern about Capacity Bubble]()
Current and would-be providers of Ku- and Ka-band satellite broadband on March 18 said they have no concern that the high-throughput spacecraft on the way will cause a glut of in-orbit capacity.
![Gogo Goes All-in on Satellite-based Service as Aviation Market Takes Off]()
Gogo’s decision to go all-in on satellite capacity is the latest sign that 2015 and 2016 will be breakout years for satellite-delivered aircraft broadband.
![EchoStar Reports Slowdown in Broadband Sign-ups]()
EchoStar Corp. said its Hughes consumer satellite broadband service provider reported a slowdown in net subscriber additions in the three months ending Dec. 31 as it reaches the saturation point on several of its satellite beams.
![Editorial | Constellation Choir Singing Familiar Tune]()
What began as a small but promising nexus between space and the sprawling technology incubator known as Silicon Valley has exploded into something much larger with the rush of filings for bandwidth to deploy large constellations of low-orbiting broadband satellites.
![CNES Partners with Google on Internet Balloon Project]()
CNES officials said early tests of the Loon project persuaded the agency that the Google idea, while “appearing crazy,” was feasible and merited a closer look.
![European Commission Backs Reallocation of C-band Spectrum to Terrestrial Broadband]()
The decision is likely to tip Europe's position at the International Telecommunication Union as it prepares for the World Radiocommunication Conference in late 2015.
SES signed an agreement with Swisscom to deliver high-speed Internet service via satellite to Swiss homes beyond the reach of terrestrial solutions that meet Switzerland’s speed requirements.
STMicroelectronics and Thales will co-invest between 20 million and 30 million euros in a chip to facilitate introduction of France’s THD-Sat project to extend broadband to regions beyond the terrestrial grid.
