WASHINGTON — SpaceX won $888 million of the $9.2 billion in broadband subsidies the FCC awarded Dec. 7 under its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 auction. The money will be distributed over the next 10 years to bring broadband service to some 5.2 million homes and businesses in […]
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WASHINGTON — OneWeb announced Nov. 20 that its sale to an ownership group led by Bharti Global and the British government has closed, allowing the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new chief executive. OneWeb said it had completed “all relevant regulatory approvals,” allowing the sale of […]
Elon Musk’s engineering and business philosophy largely boils down to a three-phase approach: brainstorm it, build it, and test and iterate. Starlink, his satellite broadband venture, entered the test and iterate phase with the recent opening of its limited public beta. Musk now needs Starlink to improve and expand across […]
SAN FRANCISCO – EchoStar Corp. plans to launch the Jupiter 3 broadband satellite in the first quarter of 2022 but has not yet selected a launch provider, company officials said during a Nov. 5 earnings call. EchoStar originally planned to launch the 500 gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite in 2021 to expand […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission approved the sale of OneWeb to the British government and Bharti Global Oct. 27, as rival SpaceX started a public beta test of its Starlink system. In a public notice, the FCC announced it has approved the transfer of OneWeb’s satellite and ground station […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX, Hughes Network Systems and Viasat are eligible to compete for a share of the $20.4 billion in broadband subsidies the FCC plans to dole out under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) starting later this month. The Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 13 released a list of […]
WASHINGTON — Hughes Network Systems believes it has a chance at winning some of the $20.4 billion in rural broadband subsidies the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is preparing to spend, thanks to the company’s recent investment in megaconstellation startup OneWeb. The FCC will evaluate satellite internet alongside fiber and other […]
Space tycoon Charlie Ergen to invest £39m in satellite broadband firm rescued by Government By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:58 BST, 27 July 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 27 July 2020 Space tycoon Charlie Ergen is to invest £39m in a satellite broadband firm rescued by the […]