Growth of more than 30% in Eutelsat’s low-Earth orbit satellite business has offset declines in its legacy video operations.
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Gwynne Shotwell says the company will build ground infrastructure and chase customers from established carriers.
Starlink has 10 000 satellites and a six-year head-start, yet rival Amazon Leo may beat it to market in South Africa.
Herotel will distribute Amazon Leo satellite broadband in South Africa – sidestepping the licensing trap snaring rival Starlink.
Four centuries separate the VOC and SpaceX, but both asked the public to fund a frontier.
Solly Malatsi insists nobody influenced him into pursuing a policy his party, the DA, had already promised.
Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
The regulator says it cannot issue new network licences for now, pointing operators towards buying existing ones.
Armed with $17-billion in spectrum, SpaceX is said to be eyeing the launch of its own mobile network business.