TERRESTAR LAUNCHES CANADA-WIDE HYBRID SATELLITE IOT SERVICE POWERED BY MAVENIR’S CLOUD-NATIVE VIRTUALIZED RAN AND CORE

12/02/2026 10:45 AM

MONTRÉAL, Feb 12 (Bernama) -- Terrestar Solutions Inc., Canada’s only domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite service operator, and Mavenir the software company building AI-by-design mobile networks, today announce the commercial launch of Terrestar’s Hybrid Satellite IoT connectivity service, the first Canadian controlled hybrid satellite–cellular IoT platform built entirely on 3GPP Release 17 standards and designed to integrate seamlessly with existing and future mobile networks, supporting resilient IoT services across Canada’s urban, rural, remote, and northern regions.

The non-terrestrial service is delivered over Terrestar’s Echostar T1 geostationary satellite using licensed S band mobile satellite spectrum and powered by Mavenir’s cloud-native virtualized RAN (vRAN), Converged Packet Core, and advanced network management and analytics solutions, integrated within Terrestar’s broader Hybrid IoT connectivity ecosystem.

 

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