The spate of new partnerships between terrestrial mobile operators and satellite platform providers continues amid growing urgency to plug coverage gaps for backhaul and primary connectivity. A burst of activity in part driven by the latest 3GPP NTN standards which have fostered collaborations between terrestrial and satellite operators. Such partnerships between telcos and primarily LEO constellation providers also open up new use cases in IoT, such as logistics management and asset tracking. Both the GSA and GSMA, respectively representing mobile technology vendors and operators, have been counting and the numbers are accumulating fast. The data is inevitably a few months old by the time it has been collated, with the GSA’s latest count dating back to the end of March…