Intelsat to upgrade over 900 sites in South Africa for Openserve

Orange said on Tuesday it has launched a project to replace the existing satellite infrastructure of the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the South Pacific with connectivity from satellite operator SES’s O3b mPOWER system.

Satellite communications are a longstanding technology that have remained inaccessible due to their higher costs – and arguably limited capabilities – compared to terrestrial networks. However, recent advances in the technology have seen direct-to-devi…

Recent satellite internet news coming out of Latin America and India is a reminder that Starlink isn’t having things entirely its own way when it comes to satellite internet.