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Category: Satellites

Broadband, General, Regulation, Satellites Posted on25/01/202125/01/2021

SpaceX’s Starlink in touching distance of the Falklands!

It’s been a quiet year on OpenFalklands with less opportunity to write technical articles about Falkland Islands telecommunications subjects (I’ve done most!) and with a […] Read More

Broadband, Internet, Regulation, Satellites, Strategy, Telecommunications Posted on17/03/202021/03/2020

An open email to MLAs about the impact of VSAT legislation on businesses

Update, 21st MaRCH 2020 I’ve sent an email to MLAs To: Falkland Islands MLAs cc: Falkland Islands Attorney General Although this is an important issue […] Read More

Broadband, Internet, Regulation, Satellites, Strategy, Telecommunications Posted on09/01/202001/03/2021

Business continuity, VSATs and the law of unintended consequences

Following my previous post – National Broadband Strategy: Subsea cable study, there is a subject that has not had sufficient public debate – Internet blackout […] Read More

Broadband, General, Satellites, Sure Falkland Islands issue Posted on10/11/201910/11/2019

October and November 2019 Falkland Islands broadband service performance issues, Update #8.

Update #8: 10th November 2019 Sadly, it looks like there are still ongoing issues with the Falkland Islands Internet service after receiving several emails and […] Read More

Broadband, FI cloud, Satellites, Strategy Posted on23/04/201925/04/2019

Falkland Islands’ Internet usage: Part 3, Forecasting future satellite capacity

I was pleased to see Household [Internet] User Habits survey on the Falkland Islands as an element of Communications Week in March 2019. However, the […] Read More

Broadband, Satellites Posted on04/04/201914/05/2019

Ping testing a Falkland Islands Internet server (Updated 14th April 2019)

May 14th update Saint Helena and the Falkland Islands Face Simultaneous Outages. (14-05-19)”] On 30 April 2019, internet service in the Falkland Islands and Saint […] Read More

Satellites Posted on25/03/201928/03/2019

Falkland Islands’ satellite – spoilt for choice! Part 2, O3B mPOWER

In Part 1 of this post I looked at Intelsat’s geo-stationary EPICNG satellite. In part 2, I’d like to talk about Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) […] Read More

Satellites Posted on22/03/201924/04/2019

Falkland Islands’ satellite – spoilt for choice! Part 1, Intelsat EPIC.

There couldn’t be a better time to look at the up and coming possibilities of increasing satellite capacity (not to forget reducing latency) in the […] Read More

Satellites Posted on14/03/201902/04/2019

The enigma of Falkland Islands satellite capacity

In the previous two posts on OpenFalklands I focused SAEx submarine cable connectivity to St Helena as a successful St Helena Government program and the […] Read More

Recent Posts

  • A possible solution for “Problems Receiving Some UK Texts”?
  • Update: Formal Complaint regarding the actions of the Falkland Islands Communications Regulator
  • Updates on VP8 amateur radio licences in British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
  • SpaceX’s Starlink in touching distance of the Falklands!
  • News: St Helena Communications Licence Market Engagement

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