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• More NBN access for remote schools

  By AAP | 25 May, 2012 10:00

  More remote schools, health clinics and local government facilities will be able to access the National Broadband Network (NBN) through an established interim satellite service, the government says.

• Optus wins $15 million satellite contract with NSW education department

  By Spandas Lui | 17 May, 2012 09:45

  Optus has nabbed a five-year contract with the NSW Department of Education and Communities for satellite services to improve remote students’ distance learning.

• NewSat signs yet another contract for Jabiru Satellite Capacity

  By Hafizah Osman | 27 April, 2012 16:26

  NewSat signs yet another contract for Jabiru Satellite Capacity

• LightSquared wins two-year reprieve for spectrum payments to Inmarsat

  By Peter Sayer | 21 April, 2012 01:32

  LightSquared has a further two years in which to seek regulatory approval for its LTE mobile network in the U.S. before it must begin making payments to its radio spectrum supplier Inmarsat, the companies announced Friday.

• Honeywell and Inmarsat to improve in-flight connectivity

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 18 April, 2012 23:35

  Honeywell and Inmarsat have signed a deal to cooperate on next-generation in-flight connectivity systems that will increase the maximum bandwidth to 50M bps (bits per second), they said on Wednesday.

• NBN satellites on the right trajectory to launch: United Nations communications agency

  By Patrick Budmar | 18 April, 2012 14:25

  NBN Co. can now rest easy knowing that its plans to launch two satellites are following the correct approvals process of the world satellite body, the United Nations communications agency.

• NewSat acquires an additional $7.5 million from investors

  By Patrick Budmar | 17 April, 2012 09:57

  NewSat, the company behind the upcoming Jabiru-1 satellite, has secured another $7.5 million of funds for the project.

• LightSquared question is in FCC's hands now

  By Stephen Lawson | 03 April, 2012 11:29

  With the end of the public comment and response periods on LightSquared's plan to operate a 4G LTE service near GPS frequencies, it's now the FCC's turn to decide how to proceed.

• Broadband infrastructure: Time for real policy

  By Mark Gibbs | 26 March, 2012 15:31

  I'm late filing this column. Why? It's my AT&T U-Verse DSL connection again. Make that "yet again." I've been struggling with it all day.

• LTE will help make in-flight data access cheaper, vendors say

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 March, 2012 04:00

  Deutsche Telekom, Alcatel-Lucent and Airbus have tested data communication between an aircraft and the ground, using LTE, which helps make in-flight data access cheaper, the three companies said on Thursday.

• LightSquared's Ahuja resigns as CEO

  By Stephen Lawson | 29 February, 2012 19:30

  LightSquared Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his CEO post, in the latest change to rock the company that still says it wants to build a 4G network using frequencies next to the GPS spectrum band.

• LightSquared defaults on $56M payment to spectrum owner Inmarsat

  By Peter Sayer | 21 February, 2012 01:08

  LightSquared has defaulted on a US$56.25 million payment due under a 2007 wireless spectrum cooperation agreement with Inmarsat, the U.K. satellite communications operator said Monday, adding that it could terminate the agreement if LightSquared doesn't make payment within 60 days.

• LightSquared's options to save its network are limited

  By Stephen Lawson | 16 February, 2012 12:33

  Though would-be mobile carrier LightSquared says it still wants to find a solution to interference with GPS, its options are limited, industry observers said on Wednesday.

• Feds look beyond LightSquared to set GPS interference standards

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 February, 2012 12:57

  A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a proposal by would-be hybrid mobile operator LightSquared that may be doomed by broad opposition.

• Researchers crack satellite encryption

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 09:27

  Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.