Category: funding

UK commits £7.8B to orbital assets and space strategy

The UK government is committing £7.8bn to a unified space strategy to protect orbital assets and drive reindustrialisation. Formally replacing the 2021 National Space Strategy, the policy integrates civilian and military space programmes under the Mode…

AT&T closes $23B EchoStar spectrum deal to boost 5G capacity

AT&T has closed a $23 billion acquisition of EchoStar wireless spectrum, adding mid-band and low-band capacity across the US. The transaction, first announced earlier this year, hands AT&T roughly 30 MHz of nationwide 3.45 GHz mid-band spectrum…

AT&T closes $23B EchoStar spectrum deal to boost 5G capacity

AT&T has closed a $23 billion acquisition of EchoStar wireless spectrum, adding mid-band and low-band capacity across the US. The transaction, first announced earlier this year, hands AT&T roughly 30 MHz of nationwide 3.45 GHz mid-band spectrum…

AT&T closes $23B EchoStar spectrum deal to boost 5G capacity

AT&T has closed a $23 billion acquisition of EchoStar wireless spectrum, adding mid-band and low-band capacity across the US. The transaction, first announced earlier this year, hands AT&T roughly 30 MHz of nationwide 3.45 GHz mid-band spectrum…

AT&T closes $23B EchoStar spectrum deal to boost 5G capacity

AT&T has closed a $23 billion acquisition of EchoStar wireless spectrum, adding mid-band and low-band capacity across the US. The transaction, first announced earlier this year, hands AT&T roughly 30 MHz of nationwide 3.45 GHz mid-band spectrum…

Military funds Cohere’s multi-waveform RAN for drone detection

Cohere Technologies has won a $28 million military contract to build a multi-waveform Radio Access Network (RAN) prototype for detecting drones. The funding originates from the FutureG Office within the US Department of War.  The project expands u…

NTT, SK Group bet $500M on photonics to solve AI power drain

NTT, SK Group, and Chunghwa Telecom have pooled $500 million into a fund for AI infrastructure built on the IOWN photonics architecture. The vehicle – IOWN AI Fund, managed by the newly-incorporated IOWN Global Capital – channels capital toward compani…

UK helps fund new European satellite projects through ARTES

UK Space Agency funding will support five new satellite projects through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) programme. As businesses and governments increasingly rely on low Earth orbit (LEO) const…