http://www.satellitetoday.com Satellite Today en-us 2010 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 3:59:46 EDT Belief that demand for capacity serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) soon will skyrocket has been building for more than a year, spurred by a combination of increasing demand for satellite-based services and government deregulation that is encouraging more providers to enter the market. This... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/33392.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Teleports often are characterized as the ground-based infrastructure of a satellite network, but the term means different things to different people. There is a surprising amount of diversification in the field, and the term teleport covers a wide range of facilities and business models, making it... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/33393.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST The success enjoyed by the commercial satellite sector over recent decades comes as no surprise to the engineers, technicians and managers who have been contributing to its remarkable growth by providing customers with accurate and reliable services around the globe. Yet, to the uninitiated, satellites can... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/33394.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST There are a few primary areas which have the biggest impact on a teleport operator’s bottom line and/or the ability to improve service delivery. These broad areas include: space segment, network management systems, electricity consumption and network performance, and new technologies are making... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/33164.html Mon, 1 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST Khalid Balkheyour, CEO, Arabsat Arabsat is expected to post double-digit percentage increases in revenues and profits, as operational revenues jumped from $157 million in 2008 to $192 million in 2009, and EBIDTA improved 68 percent in the same period. But the numbers tell only part of the story engineered by... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/33165.html Mon, 1 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The WiMax sector’s overall efforts were rebuffed at the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference, but with some governments around the globe continuing to support WiMax and international mobile telecommunications (IMT) players and use of the spectrum within their borders, the relationship between the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/32998.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST According to Andrea Maleter, technical director, Futron, “There is a fair amount of private equity money still going into (Latin America’s) satellite business. Latin American telecoms, in general, has seen a fair amount of consolidation. Telefonica, which has acquired so many companies around the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/32999.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST Although the monitoring market is a good one, it is not homogeneous. Monitoring covers a broad range of applications which often are lumped under a single, generic moniker. In reality, the monitoring market is stratified with different solutions, each with quite different communication needs. Utilities are... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/32913.html Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST There is more to marketing a product than simple sales strategy. Marketing is a defining trait of a company, and one that often makes it stand out from its competitors. Examples of this abound in all industries. In the telecoms sector, a company such as Taiwan’s HTC Corp. managed to grow into one of... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/32914.html Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST The Internet and wireless communications have had a major impact on the consumption of video content. TV operators no longer can think of just offering services via a single device at a set time and now have to think about whether to extend into mobile and other delivery methods. Big-name operators such as... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/32666.html Sun, 1 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EDT