Author: Staff Writer

BSkyB, the biggest pay-TV operator in the United Kingdom, has unveiled plans to introduce a number of new mobile sales units to demonstrate the benefits of products such as its...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert has filed a lawsuit against two New Jersey-based companies and their owner. The lawsuit accuses them of illegally contacting dozens of consumers whose names and...

Ericsson [ERICY], a Charlotte, N.C.-based wireless communication company, and Econet Wireless Nigeria have signed an expansion GSM contract valued at $110 million. A first phase of the project is underway...

The Washington-based Aerospace Industries Association unveiled its second five-year research and development plan aimed at urging the Bush administration to develop a vision for aerospace similar to the one recently...

AsiaSat has reached a new key lease agreement with the national broadcaster in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The lease agreement calls for Bangladesh Television (BTV) to use C-band capacity...

DirecTV Latin America LLC has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection. The company has returned to “solid financial footing,” said Larry N. Chapman, president and chief operating officer of...

Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [LMT] is trying to assist in the space exploration initiative of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by forming a business unit to respond to...

Foxtel,the Australian pay-TV operator, is expecting its new digital service will prove to be popular among the country’s consumers. Patrick Delany, Foxtel’s director of digital, said the company’s new offering...

SES Global S.A. [SESG], the world’s largest satellite operator, acquired a 9 percent ownership stake in Orbcomm, a Dulles, Va.-based provider of global satellite data services to industrial, military and...

Orange France, a Paris-based subsidiary of Orange SA, plans to make mass-market Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation services available on the Orange France network during second quarter 2004. Orange France’s...