http://www.satellitetoday.com Satellite Today en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:08:00 EDT [Satellite News 02-22-10] U.S. Broadband stimulus funds of $100 million for satellite projects, specifically set aside in a U.S. Rural Utilities Services (RUS) and U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) notice of funds available issued in January, fell short of the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/33442.html Mon, 22 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The timing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s passage in February could not have been better for the satellite industry. After months of panicked discussion among analysts and executives over a devastated economy and which financial institutions would be willing to invest in the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/32168.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT [Satellite News 02-03-09] In its current form, President Obama’s nearly $6 billion proposed Broadband Stimulus Bill mentions satellite applications only twice in its 258 pages.     The first mention of satellite comes as an order to provide $600 million to the U.S. National Oceanic and... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/29788.html Tue, 3 Feb 2009 0:00:00 EST Satellite broadband initiatives are plentiful in Asia, with companies such as Thaicom, Optus and BB Sat looking to use the latest satellite technology to reduce the digital divide in countries throughout the region. Asia and Pacific — Broadband and Growing With 39 percent of the world’s broadband... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/25769.html Mon, 1 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST [Satellite News 11-28-08] JSAT Mobile CEO, Kei Shibuya, said the reasons behind his company’s strategic move to team up with Stratos Global to form a company targeting the MSS space was based around the company’s history in the FSS sector.     “We did not have the sales and... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/29202.html Mon, 1 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST [Satellite News 10-31-08] Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (Yahsat) is the latest satellite operator to believe there potentially is strong demand for satellite broadband services in the consumer market as well as the enterprise and government market.     Yahsat announced Oct. 18 that it... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/25201.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT [Satellite News 09-25-08] Two important moves have happened recently in the realm of satellite cellular communications – TerreStar Corp. sold its remaining shares in SkyTerra Communications to private equity firm Harbinger Capital Management and other parties on Sept. 19 and Mobile Satellite Ventures... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/24760.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT The impact of widespread satellite broadband deployments on previously unserved and underserved regions of the world has been substantial and represents a real win-win for the user and service provider alike. But in the case of certain satellite broadband services in Burma there is a dark cloud overhead. The... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/23233.html Sun, 1 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT [Satellite News – 5-6-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) posted a 6 percent increase in revenues for the first quarter of 2008 and has made significant progress in implementing the cooperation agreement signed with Inmarsat plc in December, the company announced May 6.     The... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/22954.html Tue, 6 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT [Satellite News – 4-16-08] Former Near Earth LLC President J. Armand Musey has reached base camp on Mount Everest and is preparing to ascend to Camp 1, 19,600 ft. above sea level.     Musey, who left Wall Street in 2007, is climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, as both a... http://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/voice/22730.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT