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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Global Drone Industry: 2025 Market Report

Global Drone Industry: 2025 Market Report

The global drone market was valued at about $73 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach $163+ billion by 2030, with a 14%+ CAGR in the latter 2020s. Military and defense end-use accounted for about 60% of total drone market value in 2024. DJI held an estimated 70%+ share of the global drone market by 2024. Ukraine produced over 2 million drones domestically in 2024 and, per President Zelensky in early 2025, has the capacity to build 4 million drones annually. Baykar’s TB2 armed drone has endurance over 24 hours and by 2024 Baykar had export deals with 30
29 May 2025
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Drones in Ukraine (2022–2025): A Comprehensive Report

Drones in Ukraine (2022–2025): A Comprehensive Report

By late 2023, nearly every Ukrainian combat brigade had integrated drones, with dedicated UAV units for surveillance, artillery spotting, and attack missions. Small off-the-shelf DJI Mavic quadcopters, priced around $1,500–$3,000, were widely used for frontline reconnaissance and artillery correction. FPV kamikaze drones cost as little as $400–$500 to assemble and have been linked to a large share of Russian losses, with estimates of 60–80%. UkrJet’s UJ-22 has an 800 km range for long-range strikes, while Antonov’s Lyuty reportedly has a 750 km range and a sub-$200,000 price per unit. By end-2024 Ukraine conducted the world’s first fully unmanned joint attack
29 May 2025
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Inside Ethiopia’s Internet Boom: Fiber Optics, 5G Dreams, and Starlink Skies

Inside Ethiopia’s Internet Boom: Fiber Optics, 5G Dreams, and Starlink Skies

As of early 2025, about 28.6 million Ethiopians were internet users, roughly 21.3% of the population. Ethio Telecom owned about 23,000 km of fiber-optic cable across Ethiopia as of 2023, forming the national backbone and linking to neighboring undersea cables via Djibouti. In late 2024, Ethio Telecom signed a Horizon Fiber corridor deal with Djibouti Telecom and Sudatel to create a multi-terabit cross-border link between Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Sudan. Ethio Telecom launched commercial 5G in Addis Ababa in October 2022, with 145 sites active in the capital by September 2023 and expansion to additional cities planned. Safaricom Ethiopia launched commercial
29 May 2025
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10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

10 Gbps in Paradise: Inside Seychelles’ High-Speed Internet Revolution (and the Satellite Showdown)

The Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) became Seychelles’ first major undersea cable, linking the islands to continental Africa in the early 2010s and ending reliance on satellites. In August 2021, Intelvision secured support to lease a branch of the 2Africa submarine cable, enabling 600 Gbps of international capacity and added redundancy. Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) began a nationwide Fibre-to-the-Home rollout in 2017, aiming to replace all copper lines with fiber by 2020. By late 2024, Cable & Wireless Seychelles launched “GigaNet,” Africa’s first 10 Gbps broadband service, using 50G-PON technology. International bandwidth available to Seychelles’ ISPs grew from about
29 May 2025
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State of Internet Access in Mexico: The Digital Divide, Ground and Sky

State of Internet Access in Mexico: The Digital Divide, Ground and Sky

As of early 2024, Mexico had over 107 million internet users, about 83% of the population. Fixed broadband is increasingly fiber-based, with around 70% of fixed connections using fiber (FTTH) and Telmex migrating about 85% of its broadband customers from DSL to fiber. Red Compartida, launched in 2018 by Altán Redes, reached 95.3% of the population by June 2024, exceeding its 92.2% target. CFE TEIT started in 2022 and had installed 91,000 free Wi‑Fi access points nationwide by early 2024. Mexico’s mobile market reached 125.4 million active mobile lines by early 2024, about 97% of the population. 5G rollout progressed
29 May 2025
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Fire, Ice, and Fiber: How Iceland’s Internet Leaves the World in the Dust

Fire, Ice, and Fiber: How Iceland’s Internet Leaves the World in the Dust

Fixed fiber dominates Iceland’s broadband, with FTTH at 88.7% of fixed lines and over 93% of homes having gigabit-capable fiber, including at least 1 Gbps nationwide and 10 Gbps in most areas. Iceland is linked internationally by four submarine cables—FARICE-1, DANICE, Greenland Connect, and IRIS (launched in 2023 to Ireland)—totaling 208.8 Tbit/s of capacity, of which about 3 Tbit/s is currently used. Three mobile operators—Síminn, Vodafone Iceland (Sýn), and Nova—provide nationwide 4G/5G, with Nova launching 5G in 2020 and Síminn and Vodafone in 2021. By 2023, 5G signals blanket most towns and transit routes across Iceland, with widespread 4G/5G coverage
29 May 2025
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The Shocking Truth Behind Chile’s Internet Boom: 96% Connected (and Counting)

The Shocking Truth Behind Chile’s Internet Boom: 96% Connected (and Counting)

As of early 2024, 96.5% of Chilean households have internet access, up from about 70.2% in 2015. Fixed broadband subscriptions reached 4.52 million in 2023, or 22.6 per 100 inhabitants. As of late 2023, nearly 70% of fixed connections are fiber-optic (FTTH/B), with copper DSL largely replaced. 96.8% of urban households and 94.5% of rural households have internet access, narrowing the urban–rural gap to about 2 percentage points. Chile launched 5G in December 2021, and by late 2024 there were over 5.3 million 5G users, with roughly 40% of mobile subscriptions 5G-capable. Starlink commands about 58% of Chile’s satellite internet
29 May 2025
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Out of Signal? These Phones Talk to Space! The Truth About Satellite SMS and Satellite Phones

Out of Signal? These Phones Talk to Space! The Truth About Satellite SMS and Satellite Phones

The iPhone 14 introduced Emergency SOS via satellite in September 2022 using the Globalstar network, with a US/Canada launch in November 2022 and expansion to 17 countries by mid-2024. The Huawei Mate 60 Pro, released in August 2023, became the world’s first smartphone to support direct satellite voice calls via China’s Tiantong-1 GEO constellation. Iridium operates 66 active LEO satellites in polar orbits, providing truly worldwide coverage including the poles, with cross-links between satellites. Globalstar is a LEO network with dozens of satellites in ~52° inclination, covering most populated areas but not polar regions. Apple’s Emergency SOS and Messages via
29 May 2025
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Inside OneWeb’s Global Internet Play: How This Satellite Network Is Quietly Disrupting Starlink’s Orbit

Inside OneWeb’s Global Internet Play: How This Satellite Network Is Quietly Disrupting Starlink’s Orbit

OneWeb’s first-generation constellation comprises 648 LEO satellites at about 1,200 km altitude, each ~150 kg, using Ku-band for user links and Ka-band for gateways, with 16 spot beams and no inter-satellite laser links, delivering up to 7.2 Gbps per satellite. By late 2021, OneWeb achieved partial service in high-latitude regions, focusing on the Arctic, Northern Europe, Greenland, and Alaska. On March 25, 2023, the first-generation constellation reached 614 operational satellites, exceeding the minimum ~588 satellites required for global coverage, with 648 planned total. In September 2023, OneWeb merged with France’s Eutelsat to form Eutelsat OneWeb, making Eutelsat the 100% owner
29 May 2025
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Sky-Fi Revolution: How Starlink Is Reshaping Global Internet Access

Sky-Fi Revolution: How Starlink Is Reshaping Global Internet Access

Starlink is a SpaceX satellite internet constellation that began launching in 2019 to deliver broadband virtually anywhere on Earth. As of late 2024, SpaceX had launched over 7,000 Starlink satellites, with FCC authorization for about 12,000 and potential expansion beyond 30,000 in the future. Starlink satellites orbit at approximately 550 km altitude in multiple orbital shells, enabling lower latency than geostationary satellites. SpaceX reached 1 million Starlink subscribers by the end of 2022 and 4 million by September 2024. Each Starlink satellite is equipped with phased-array antennas, and some models include inter-satellite laser links for in-space data routing. The network
29 May 2025
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Brazil’s Digital Divide: The Real Story Behind Internet Access and the Race to Connect Everyone

Brazil’s Digital Divide: The Real Story Behind Internet Access and the Race to Connect Everyone

As of 2023, about 88% of Brazilians aged 10 or older used the internet, equal to roughly 164 million people. In 2023, about 92.5% of Brazilian households had internet access. Regional disparities exist, with the Central-West around 91% online in 2023 while the North and Northeast hovered around 85%. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) has surged, and by late 2024 fiber accounted for about 77% of fixed broadband subscriptions, with about 41.3 million fiber connections out of roughly 53 million fixed lines. 4G coverage is virtually universal, with 4G available in all 5,570 municipalities and over 98% of the population covered. The November
29 May 2025
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State of Internet Access in Argentina: Fiber, 5G, and Satellite in 2025

State of Internet Access in Argentina: Fiber, 5G, and Satellite in 2025

Argentina had about 40.6 million internet users and an internet penetration of 88% in early 2024, according to DataReportal. Fixed broadband subscriptions reached 11.9 million by end-2024, including about 4.8 million fiber subscriptions, up roughly 1 million that year. Fiber grew to represent about 41% of fixed broadband lines nationwide by late 2024, up from roughly 34% at end-2023. In October 2023, a 3.5 GHz mid-band spectrum auction allocated 250 MHz to Claro, Movistar, and Personal, enabling broader 5G deployment. In February 2024, Argentina authorized low Earth orbit satellite providers Starlink, OneWeb, and Kuiper to operate nationwide. Starlink began accepting
29 May 2025
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