Author: Staff Writer

Verestar, a provider of satellite integration services, has agreed to sell its General Telecom unit to New Global Telecom for an undisclosed sum. General Telecom is a provider of outsourced...

By Tom Watts, SG Cowen Securities Ohio Governor Bob Taft signed into law a bill that will apply a 6 percent sales tax to direct broadcast satellite (DBS) services, but...

The launch of the second Mars Exploration Rovers, named “Opportunity,” aboard a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been delayed until July 2 from an...

Week of June 20 – 26, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol June 26 One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.30 (22.0) 32.2 51.3...

QuakeFinder successfully launched its QuakeSat satellite Monday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The satellite was placed into a low-Earth polar orbit, approximately 840 kilometers above the earth. QuakeFinder’s objective...

BestNet Communications Corp. [OTC BB: BESC] , a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based provider of Internet-based communications, has opened new European sales office in the United Kingdom. BestNet is an Internet-based provider...

New Orleans-based AXONN has shipped the first production units of its AXTracker mobile asset tracking device. AXTracker is a battery-operated, telemetry device designed to communicate with the Globalstar satellite constellation...

The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association has come out strongly against a measure passed Thursday by the Senate Commerce Committee that would prohibit the holding of an auction for multichannel...

EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] and Hughes Electronics’ [NYSE: GMH] DirecTV unit have filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio for enacting a 6 percent sales tax on satellite TV...

Next year, Shin Satellite (ShinSat) of Thailand will launch a new iPSTAR satellite aimed at providing broadband telecom and multimedia services to households, businesses and public organizations in Asia. Individual...