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South America News
Gilat Satellite Networks Scores Satellite Connectivity Business with Peru State Bank Gilat To Home Peru, a subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks, has been awarded a three-year contract by Peru’s state bank, Banco de la Nación, to provide...
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Africa / Middle East News
General Satellite Planning Pay-TV Expansion in Pakistan Russian satellite reception equipment manufacturer, General Satellite, is planning to invest in a new pay-TV platform for Pakistan that will be marketed to the wealthy segment of the population. The...
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North America News
Telefonica Splits Share of Hispasat Between Eutelsat and Abertis Telefonica has reached an agreement to sell its 13 percent stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat to Eutelsat and Abertis for 101 million euros ($137.02 million), bringing in 47 million...
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Satellite Life Extension: Reaching for the Holy Grail
Satellite life extension continues to hold both revolutionary promise and disruptive menace for the satellite and space industry. The useful lifetime of geosynchronous orbit satellites averages about fifteen years – a limit primarily imposed by the...
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Erkan Bostanci Head of Satellite Transmission, Turkuvaz Media Group
With a population of around 74 million people, Turkey is one of the biggest countries in Europe. It is also a market where satellite is strong, both from a pay-TV and a FTA perspective. The Turkuvaz Media Group, one of Turkey’s largest media groups...
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Regional Focus: Africa
South Africa: DTH Operators Assess Market Dynamics Rooftops of Marrakech With a population of just over 50 million people, South Africa is one of the world’s most interesting DTH markets as operators battle for new business there. Two operators...
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Shale Gas Boom Set to Expand
The shale gas revolution has seen the United States turn around its bleak energy position from a massive importer to a future of self-sufficiency within the next two decades. This revolution was achieved on the back of the right set of conditions above...
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Earth Stations Go Airborne
In-flight broadband services for commercial airliners and private aircraft just got a boost. In December, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order implementing Ku-band rules for the operation of satellite earth stations on aircraft...
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Cato Halsaa CEO, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting
Cato Halsaa has been CEO of Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) for well over a decade and has led the satellite operator to a strong position across a number of industry verticals such as DTH and broadcast in the Nordic region. Halsaa is leaving his...
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Via Satellite's Executive of the Year 2012: Tom Choi, CEO, Asia Broadcast Satellite
Six years ago, Asia Broadcast Satellite CEO Tom Choi had a bold vision for the operator. He wanted to create a regional powerhouse with multiple satellites. By 2012, Choi built one of the most impressive operators in the market and has continually raised the...
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Our 2012 Satellite Executive of Year Revealed
I would like to congratulate Tom Choi, CEO, Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) who I am proud to name as our Satellite Executive of the Year for 2012. As always, it was a great competition and we had a terrific set of nominees, which included Khalid Balkheyour of...
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Satellite Executive of the Year: The Nominees for 2012
Last year, we announced that Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium was the Satellite Executive of the Year for 2011 after a brilliant performance in maximizing the MSS operator’s long-term potential. Now, exclusive to the digital edition of Via Satellite, we...
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Middle East and Africa Remain Key Hotspots for Satellite
The current landscape of satellite operators in the region includes several players who have been in the business for some time now: Arabsat, which has been building satellites at a healthy pace, plays in the VSAT, broadcast and telecoms spaces; NileSat...
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Antenna Industry: Tuned to Future of
Satellite Communications
The companies that supply transmission systems for use on the ground and aboard spacecraft must continuously innovate as satellite operators strive to meet their users’ growing demand for telecommunications services. Yet even as they overcome daunting...
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Technology Preview: Satellite 2013
A lot of executives believe flexibility and intelligent payloads could be key technology topics at SATELLITE 2013. These topics are now frequently on the agenda, and satellite operators are looking at the next generation of satellites offering more...
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Satellite Export Reform Moves Forward
Satellite technology export controls took a long step forward to rationalization as Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law on January 3, the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which returns authority to the President to...
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South America News
Astrium Services Extends Regional Maritime Capacity Lease Astrium Services has signed capacity deals with SES to deliver connectivity to vessels around Latin America as well as in the North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Astrium Services will...
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Executive Moves News
Intelsat Hires Nokia’s Marais as Regional Vice President of African Sales Intelsat has appointed Grant Marais as its regional vice president of African sales. Marais succeeds Jon Osler, who will join Intelsat’s Global Accounts team in Washington...
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Europe News
EutelsatAwarded KA-SAT Internet Service Contract from Telefonica Telefonica Global Solutions will use Eutelsat’s high-performance Ka-Sat satellite to provide high quality satellite broadband services to carriers from all over Europe. Telefonica aims...
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Africa/Middle East News
SES Provides Capacity for Anadolu Networks Local DTH Platform SES will provide capacity from one transponder at the Astra 31.5 degrees East orbital position to Anadolu Networks. Andadolu Networks aims to use this capacity to launch its DTH platform to...
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