By Jonathan Easton Eutelsat Communications has announced a global, multi-year Distribution Partnership Agreement (DPA) with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company OneWeb. Agreeing a deal to access OneWeb capacity, Eutelsat said that the agreement will pave the way for it to commercialise OneWeb services across key verticals including Maritime,...

By Juan Pedro Tomás Rubicon Technologies announced that it has entered into a three-year smart city partnership with the city of Houston, Texas to help improve residential waste and recycling services for its more than 2.3 million residents. RUBICONSmartCity is a cloud-based technology suite that helps city governments run faster,...

By Richard Middleton Factual outfit Curiosity has launched a free, ad-supported streaming channel via a partnership with TV manufacturer LG. Curiosity Now will offer original and curated documentaries, shows and series across nature, history, science and travel genres. Programming on offer includes Ancient Engineering, The Secret Lives of Big Cats,...

By Ron Chen, Senior Correspondent ASEAN Region Zain Group has selected Huawei to accelerate the migration from 4G to 5G including 5.5G innovation to enrich the customer experience across multiple markets. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishing the partnership was signed at the recently held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona....

By Ron Chen, Senior Correspondent ASEAN Region The world’s leading international express service provider, DHL Express has entered into a Crew and Maintenance agreement (CM) with Singapore Airlines (SIA) to deploy five Boeing 777 freighters. This agreement marks a further step in DHL Express' expansion of its intercontinental air network...

By Ron Chen, Senior Correspondent ASEAN Region A  blockchain investment company, FTFT Capital Investments LLC., and the DAS (Daily Art Story) Team, which operates a Metaverse NFT art platform, announced on March 10 that they signed an agreement to partner on a Metaverse-type NFT art museum platform project. The project...

By Stuart Thomson Satellite operator SES and pay TV provider Canal+ have struck an expanded long-term agreement for uplink services for Canal+’s French pay-TV channel bouquet at the 19.2° East orbital slot. The new agreement includes services delivered from two teleports in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, and starting in 2023, Munich, Germany,....

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Senior Correspondent Leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant and Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which UBA operates. These countries include Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Côte...

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Senior Correspondent Lagos and Angeline Mgbele, Senior Correspondent Abuja Telecommunications sector referee, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Lagos Business School of Pan-Atlantic University are contemplating  a partnership that will result in developing customised capacity building interventions and overhauling of existing training courses offered by...

By James Blackman Washington DC based satellite 5G provider Omnispace is working with Dutch satellite IoT company Lacuna Space to offer “global” LoRaWAN coverage for IoT solutions. The service will employ the LoRaWAN protocol to support direct-to-satellite communications for a broad range of IoT devices. The pair called it a...