Author: Staff Writer

The world of fixed satellite services (FSS) is evolving into one of scrappy survivors whose leaders are viewing the same marketplace opportunities and challenges but are drawing different conclusions about...

Envivio Inc. demonstrated for the first time the distribution of H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) encoded content over the Hughes satellite network. The live-source content is encoded at 1.2 Mbps, Envivio said,...

Frost & Sullivan awarded its 2004 Regional Satellite Operator Award to Telesat. This award is given annually to the operator that best competes against all other operators in a region,...

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting inked a deal with Nera for the delivery of a broadband satellite gateway – the Nera SatLink Hub. Telenor will use the new DVB-RCS SatLink System to...

A group of Wall Street satellite analysts offered a spirited defense of the prospects for U.S. satellite TV operators to put forth a competitive bundle of video, broadband and voice...

The financial performance of fixed satellite operators is hamstrung by a lingering overcapacity problem that generally will exceed demand for years to come. Such is the view of two industry...

Industry CEOs voiced an uncharacteristically bullish view of their companies’ prospects for the next year during a panel discussion at the Satellite 2004 conference’s one-day financial forum Tuesday in Washington,...

Hughes Network Systems Inc. will promote the implementation of the IP-over-satellite (IPoS) standard through a multi-tiered licensing program available to all industry applications and systems providers. “IPoS is the only...

Worldspace Corp. introduced what it calls the first multinational satellite radio subscription plan available across the Worldspace Satellite Radio footprint, which covers Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Worldspace...

Vance Coffman, CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], has decided to retire from the company this summer after devoting the last 37 years to it. He made his surprise announcement...