Toronto: Terrestar Solutions Inc., renowned as Canada's sole domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite service operator, in collaboration with Mavenir, a pioneering software company specializing in AI-designed mobile networks, has announced the commercial launch of an innovative Hybrid Satellite IoT connectivity service. This marks the introduction of the first Canadian-controlled hybrid satellite-cellular IoT platform, which is built entirely on 3GPP Release 17 standards. It is engineered to seamlessly integrate with both existing and future mobile networks, and aims to provide resilient IoT services across Canada's urban, rural, remote, and northern regions.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, the non-terrestrial service is delivered through Terrestar's Echostar T1 geostationary satellite. It utilizes licensed S band mobile satellite spectrum and is powered by Mavenir's cloud-native virtualized RAN (vRAN), Converged Packet Core, and advanced network management and analytics solutions. These are integrated within Terrestar's comprehensive Hybrid IoT connectivity ecosystem, promising to enhance connectivity solutions throughout Canada.