Author: Staff Writer

Star TV has been granted Pakistan’s first pay-TV licence. It means Star is able to distribute its full bouquet of pay TV services to viewers in Pakistan. James Murdoch, chairman...

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported that losses almost doubled in the first half of 2000 to L302 billion from L152 billion (E78.50m) in the same period last year, despite...

by Marc Crossman and Aileen Chen Hughes Electronics has, in the past couple of years, shown strong fundamentals due mostly to the strength of its direct broadcasting services (DBS) business,...

by Gerry Oberst Could disputes over how countries make satellite spectrum allocation decisions ripen into trade disputes? Ever since the agreement on basic telecommunications was reached through the World Trade...

by Clayton Mowry If you’ve paid any attention to telecommunications industry trends over the past few years, you already know that data will be a big part of satellites’ future....

by Peter J. Brown Business television (BTV) has been around for years, serving as an essential tool for multi-site enterprises. Today, dozens of these networks are in operation, and satellite...

By Robert Wold The reviews are in. Some oracles opined that the Olympics are now “as much about television and show business as they are about sports, and have been...

by Peter J. Brown In the ISP world, a new paradigm–“Deliver Data, View Video”–has taken hold, and the broadcast or point-to-multipoint advantages of Internet Protocol (IP)-based transmissions via satellite are...

By Theresa Foley In the last three years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have developed into a promising new customer sector for satellite service providers. Large U.S. consumer ISPs like AOL,...

Alcatel Space said it has signed a subcontract with the Russian Satellite Communications Co. to supply the communications payloads for three satellites that RSCC has under construction in Russia. The...