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Satellite 2024: ‘We need orders of magnitude improvement’

WASHINGTON, DC—Satellite and cellular technologies are converging in 3GPP standards. New partnerships are being struck to provide services such as the ability to send text messages in areas where terrestrial mobile networks don't reach. What is the potential of satellite-cellular convergence? If there were...

EchoStar can’t secure funds to buy T-Mo’s 800 MHz; eyes NTN opportunity

EchoStar needs additional financing to pay debts coming due and plans to use its spectrum holdings as leverage The newly merged EchoStar needs to raise additional capital to pay debts due in the coming months, and is unlikely to be able to afford to exercise...

EchoStar shuffles spectrum licenses, hires firm to look at strategic alternatives

On the heels of the re-merging of EchoStar and Dish Network, EchoStar has transferred some of Dish's spectrum licenses to a new company entity for more "financing flexibility," and has also hired a financial firm to help it explore strategic alternatives. Investors sent EchoStar's stock...

Dish Wireless awarded $50 million for O-RAN test facility

ORCID will allow participants to test and validate their hardware and software solutions against an O-RAN network deployed by Dish Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information...

EchoStar, Dish complete merger

Charlie Ergen's network companies are now officially one entity again, with EchoStar having completed its merger with Dish Network. The all-stock transaction was completed on December 31, via the mechanism of a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar merging with Dish Network. The Dish Network...

Ergen’s Echostar, Dish to re-combine

The combined company aims to 'create a global leader in terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless connectivity' Fifteen years after Dish and Echostar were split into commercial satellite and satellite TV businesses, the two companies will re-combine in an all-stock deal to form a company that now...

Seven European IoT providers sign with EchoStar for LoRa-based satellite coverage

Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile's satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad Networks, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes. They will use the service, offering satellite coverage in...

EchoStar Mobile launches pan-European LoRa-enabled IoT network

In May, EchoStar announced the launch of an early adopter program for pan-European LoRa -Enabled IoT service   EchoStar Mobile, which provides mobile satellite services and is a subsidiary of EchoStar, says it has deployed a pan-European LoRa-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) network. In a release, the...

Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)

The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, by some margin, the...