Carnegie Mellon upgrades wireless network

Don’t call it a comeback. Satellite service provider Iridium Communications has been here before. “We want to be the glue for the D2D network around the world,” Brian Aziz, Iridium’s VP of global sales, told Light Reading at MWC Las Vegas. “You can have multiple options, but you’ll always have our reliability component,” added Tim […]

The Australian government has tapped the nation’s postal vehicle fleet to audit mobile network coverage across the country’s remote interior. Postal vans will carry network measurement devices to track coverage across 180,000 km of regional and rural roads, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has announced.  A pilot phase is now underway, with the main audit to start later this […]

According to SpaceX, its satellite rival AST SpaceMobile is conducting a “misinformation campaign” against SpaceX and the company’s efforts to connect T-Mobile’s customers to SpaceX satellites. In a new filing with the FCC, SpaceX urged American regulators to ignore “foreign investors and partners in AST’s meme-stock” and to approve SpaceX’s out-of-band emissions waiver request. “As […]

Direct-to-device (D2D) is one of the areas EchoStar will pursue with vigor in the wake of a complex series of financial moves and the proposed sale of Dish’s pay-TV business. Those moves aim to extend a lifeline to EchoStar, giving the company years of runway as wireless becomes the cornerstone of the business. EchoStar didn’t spell […]