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Starting today, Verizon Communications [VZ] customers will have the option to drop their local cable television service in favor of DirecTV direct-to- home satellite television service. Verizon said customers choosing...

Officials from Alcatel Space today said Marc Pircher will join the company as vice president and chief technical officer (CTO) on July 1. Pircher currently is the director of launchers...

L-3 ESSCO announced that it would supply the University of Miami with a 57-foot-diameter radome to be used for its Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) facility. The...

DirecTV [DTV] officials said the company would open two new owned-and-operated customer call centers in Tulsa, Okla., and Huntsville, Ala. The centers will employ up to 2,000 customer service representatives...

Comtech Telecommunications [CMTL] officials today said the company’s Comtech PST Corp. subsidiary received a $1.3 million order for high power amplifiers from Rockwell Collins. The amplifiers are used as part...

Officials from Hughes Network Systems yesterday said the company’s European unit, HNS Europe, has supplied Telespazio S.p.A. with a DirecWay network operations center (NOC) and remote satellite terminals. Telespazio will...

Officials from point-to-multipoint satellite service provider Microspace Communications yesterday said the first phase of its pilot digital cinema program with DreamWorks LLC was completed successfully with the delivery of the...

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] subscribers will be able to get expanded traffic reports during weekends this summer for select coastal areas, including Cape Cod; Long Island/North Jersey Shore; South Jersey...

Officials from New Skies Satellites N.V. late yesterday said the company is “engaged in advanced negotiations with a leading private equity firm” that soon could lead to The Netherlands-based satellite...

ViaSat [VSAT], based in Carlsbad, Calif., was the provider of a general aviation Internet modem deployed in the launch of the new Connexion by Boeing airborne broadband service. The Boeing...