Author: Staff Writer

TMI Communications of Ottawa, the mobile satellite subsidiary of BCE Inc. [BCE], has been licensed by the Venezuelan government to market all of its mobilesat services in that country. Together...

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] said it has signed a three-year agreement making it the exclusive supplier of mobile satellite services to Raytheon Marine Co. in the United States and Caribbean....

Intellicom Inc. of Livermore, Calif., said it has signed agreement with six companies to supply satellite-based, two-way Internet services. Intellicom is a subsidiary of SoftNet Systems Inc. [SOFN]. “Intellicom’s target...

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] of Hauppauge, N.Y., said it has won a $2.4 million contract to supply a new South Korean telecommunications company with a Ka-band earth station network. The...

UK-based communications and Internet company Energis has taken its first step into the interactive digital TV market by launching a “unique” multi-channel package for corporate content providers. To help it...

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Broadcasting (IRIB), Ali Larijani, has said that Iran has plans to transmit IRIB programmes to people across Europe and Middle East. Speaking...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is to use an end-to-end digital transmission solution provided by BT Broadcast Services to deliver live coverage from the Sydney Olympics to television viewers across...

Kardio-TV, the German medical channel planned by Munich-based Doc-Media AG in co-operation with Beta Business TV, a subsidiary of Kirch Group, intends to reach 3,000 doctors when it launches via...

The Eutelsat orbital constellation (Interspace 699, page 8) was badly affected by printer’s gremlins. The corrected version appears below. For good order’s sake it is also worth clarifying that the...

Italian portal and Yellow Pages publisher Seat Pagine Gialle has agreed to buy 75 per cent of terrestrial TV broadcaster TMC for L750 billion (E387 million). Seat, which is merging...