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Connectivity News 31 August 2025 - 19 September 2025

Satellite Revolution: AD Ports Group’s LEO Connectivity Transforms Global Shipping

Satellite Revolution: AD Ports Group’s LEO Connectivity Transforms Global Shipping

Introduction AD Ports Group – the Middle East’s logistics and port powerhouse – is literally reaching for the stars in its latest digital transformation effort. In September 2025, the company began a phased rollout of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity across all its operations thearabianpost.com. This bold initiative equips AD Ports Group’s entire fleet of ships and its vast network of seaports with high-speed internet beamed from constellations of satellites orbiting only a few hundred kilometers above the Earth. The goal is simple but game-changing: to create a fully connected maritime ecosystem, where data flows instantly from ship to
19 September 2025
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Sky Is No Limit: Global Satcom Market Set to Soar Through 2035

Satellite IoT Boom: Space Networks Poised to Connect the Unconnected by 2029

Global Market Growth: From Niche to €1.6 Billion Just a few years ago, satellite IoT was a niche segment – but not for long. Analysts project exponential growth through the decade. Berg Insight’s latest report pegs satellite IoT connectivity revenues at €1.58 billion by 2029 (36.4% CAGR from 2024) techafricanews.com. The subscriber count is expected to quintuple, reaching 32.5 million IoT devices on satellite networks by 2029 techafricanews.com. Another analysis by IoT Analytics finds 7.5 million active satellite IoT connections in 2024, with total market (connectivity + hardware) climbing 26% annually to $4.7 billion by 2030 iot-analytics.com. In short, space-based IoT is transitioning
19 September 2025
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Apple Extends Free iPhone Satellite SOS: What It Means for Every iPhone User

Smartphones Reach for the Skies: How Satellite Connectivity Is Revolutionizing Phones & Wearables

Introduction: Your Phone’s New Emergency Lifeline from Space Not long ago, the idea of texting from a smartphone to a satellite sounded like science fiction or at least something reserved for clunky satellite phones. But as of 2025, this has become reality for millions of consumers. Mainstream smartphones and even smartwatches can now connect directly to satellites orbiting Earth, allowing basic communication where traditional cell networks fail. This development marks a convergence of the mobile tech industry and the satellite industry, unlocking capabilities that were previously limited to specialized devices. At its core, this trend is about staying connected anywhere
11 September 2025
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Mystery Cable Cuts, SpaceX’s $17B Gamble & Satellite Showdowns – Internet Access Roundup (Sept 8–9, 2025)

Mystery Cable Cuts, SpaceX’s $17B Gamble & Satellite Showdowns – Internet Access Roundup (Sept 8–9, 2025)

Key Facts Undersea Cable Cuts Cripple Asia–Middle East Internet A sudden undersea communications crisis struck over the weekend as multiple fiber-optic cables were mysteriously cut in the Red Sea. On Sept 7, internet monitors reported that two critical subsea systems – the SEA-ME-WE 4 and IMEWE cables – were severed near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ts2.tech. The impact was felt across continents: connectivity slowed to a crawl or halted entirely in countries including India, Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE ts2.tech. “Multiple countries including India and Pakistan have been affected” by the outage, confirmed NetBlocks, calling it a “series of subsea cable
9 September 2025
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Lightning-Fast Internet Finally Arrives in Tonga’s Far-Flung Islands? A Deep Dive into Tonga’s Connectivity Boom and Challenges

Lightning-Fast Internet Finally Arrives in Tonga’s Far-Flung Islands? A Deep Dive into Tonga’s Connectivity Boom and Challenges

Key Facts 1. Overview of Internet Access in Tonga Tonga – a Polynesian kingdom of over 170 islands – has seen dramatic improvements in internet connectivity over the past decade. Prior to 2013, Tonga’s internet was limited to expensive, slow satellite links, resulting in low penetration and high costs. This changed when the nation’s first submarine fiber-optic cable went live in August 2013, delivering affordable high-speed internet to Tongans “for the first time ever” worldbank.org. The 827 km Tonga Cable connects Nuku’alofa (the capital on Tongatapu) to Fiji, where it links into global networks worldbank.org. This milestone was heralded as
8 September 2025
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Internet Access in Togo: Surprising Stats and the Race to Connect a Nation

Internet Access in Togo: Surprising Stats and the Race to Connect a Nation

Overview of Internet Access in Togo Togo is a small West African nation making significant strides in digital connectivity. Internet usage has grown steadily over the past decade. By January 2024, 3.44 million Togolese were Internet users, about 37.6% of the population datareportal.com. This marks a substantial increase from just a few years prior (for example, in 2016, usage was roughly half of today’s level blog.google). Still, it means nearly 6 million people (62%) remain offline datareportal.com, indicating plenty of room for growth. The majority of non-users are in rural and low-income segments, constrained by coverage gaps, costs, and digital
6 September 2025
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Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Major Outages and Internet Shutdowns In early September 2025, multiple outages and deliberate shutdowns disrupted internet access for millions across different regions. In the United States, a major Verizon network failure on August 30 demonstrated the fragility of even advanced telecom systems ts2.tech. Starting around midday (Eastern time), Verizon mobile users from California to New York suddenly lost service, with their phones stuck in emergency “SOS only” mode instead of connecting to any network ts2.tech. By mid-afternoon, outage reports spiked above 23,000 as people complained they couldn’t make calls or use mobile data ts2.tech. Verizon attributed the blackout to a
6 September 2025
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Papua New Guinea’s Internet Access Crisis: Sky-High Costs, Bold Plans, and a Digital Divide

Papua New Guinea’s Internet Access Crisis: Sky-High Costs, Bold Plans, and a Digital Divide

Key Facts Overview: A Nation Still Largely Offline Papua New Guinea (PNG) faces an uphill battle in bringing internet access to its population, which is dispersed across difficult terrain and hundreds of islands. General internet penetration remains very low – only about 24.1% of the population were internet users at the start of 2025 datareportal.com datareportal.com. In other words, roughly three out of every four Papua New Guineans have never been online. This rate is starkly below the global average and even lags behind many neighboring Pacific Island countries. The total number of internet users was estimated at 2.57 million
5 September 2025
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Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Booms: Internet Access News Roundup (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Booms: Internet Access News Roundup (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Infrastructure and Satellite Expansions Over the past 48 hours, major investments in physical internet infrastructure were unveiled worldwide. SpaceX capped a busy summer of launches with yet another batch of 24 Starlink broadband satellites lifted into orbit on August 29 ts2.tech. This marked SpaceX’s fourth Starlink launch in a month, expanding its constellation (now over 8,000 active satellites) and improving coverage in high-latitude regions like Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia ts2.tech. With this growth, Starlink continues to deliver high-speed internet to remote areas in dozens of countries. And it’s not alone – Amazon’s Project Kuiper, a rival low-Earth orbit satellite network, is
4 September 2025
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Global Internet Access Shake-Up: Outages, Crackdowns, and a Race to Connect the Unconnected

Global Internet Access Shake-Up: Outages, Crackdowns, and a Race to Connect the Unconnected

Key Facts Infrastructure and Satellite Internet Developments Major investments in physical internet infrastructure were unveiled over the past 48 hours, spanning undersea cables and satellites. SpaceX completed its fourth Starlink launch from California in a month, lofting 24 satellites on August 29 to enhance coverage in polar regions. This bolsters SpaceX’s constellation of over 8,000 active satellites, which is already delivering broadband to dozens of countries. Rival project Kuiper – Amazon’s satellite internet network – is also accelerating: Amazon announced it expects to begin beta service by late 2025, after deploying its first 27 satellites in April and scheduling another launch
3 September 2025
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Trinidad & Tobago’s Internet Boom: From 80% Online to Blazing Broadband Speeds

Trinidad & Tobago’s Internet Boom: From 80% Online to Blazing Broadband Speeds

Overview of Internet Infrastructure (Fixed, Mobile, Fiber & More) Trinidad and Tobago’s internet infrastructure is a mix of modern fiber-optic networks, cable systems, wireless technologies, and mobile broadband. On the fixed broadband side, connectivity is delivered via several technologies: On the mobile side, Trinidad and Tobago is thoroughly covered by 3G/4G mobile data networks: Below is a summary of the main internet access technologies in Trinidad & Tobago: Access Technology Status in T&T (2025) Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Widely deployed in populated areas by Flow, Digicel, and Amplia (TSTT). Provides 100–1000 Mbps plans. Rapid growth in recent years. Cable Broadband (HFC) Extensive coverage
1 September 2025
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Saint Kitts’ Internet Revolution: From Fiber-Fast Speeds to Satellite Connectivity

Saint Kitts’ Internet Revolution: From Fiber-Fast Speeds to Satellite Connectivity

Key Facts at a Glance Overview of the Internet Landscape in Saint Kitts Saint Kitts and Nevis (population ~47,000) enjoys a robust internet landscape for its size. Internet penetration is around 76% datareportal.com, meaning over three-quarters of citizens use the internet regularly – a high rate for the Caribbean. The twin-island nation’s telecom market is regulated under the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL), which fosters a competitive and standardized environment across member states. Historically, fixed-line broadband in Saint Kitts relied on the incumbent telco’s DSL and a local cable company’s network, while mobile internet took off with the arrival of
31 August 2025
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