If you were hoping the satellite communications industry would spend this week quietly sipping cocoa and pretending interference doesn’t exist, I have disappointing news. This was a week where D2D (direct-to-device) stopped being a shiny conference-slide fantasy and continued its awkward transformation into an actual regulatory regime, with Ofcom lighting the fuse in the UK and the FCC continuing its long-running series, Space: The Paperwork Awakens.
Meanwhile, the rest of satcom reminded us it still exists: GEO video neighborhoods kept cashing checks like a veteran mercenary who’s “too old for this” but still somehow owns the battlefield; industrial IoT quietly did what it does best (work); and LEO deployment kept chugging along with the unglamorous logistics of ships, rockets, and supply chains; the stuff that makes your constellation real, not just inspirational.
