Month: February 2000

Middletown, R.I.-based KVH Industries Inc. [KVHI] filed suit in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island against in-motion satellite antenna competitor Datron/Transco Inc. [DTSI] for infringing a KVH patent. KVH is...

Fremont, Calif.-based SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] is shipping additional beta-test systems of its new iP3 broadband satellite Internet gateway platform. The first iP3 beta test systems, shipped by SSET two...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] service partner Telecommunications par Satellites Mobiles (TE.SA.M.) opened the newest Globalstar gateway in Los Velasquez, Venezuela, bringing the total number of fully operational gateways to 13. The...

Orbcomm Global L.P. value-added reseller, Intrex Data Communications Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Dallas, plans to merge with FiberChem Inc. [FOCS] of Las Vegas, Nevada. Financial details were not...

St. Paul, Minn.-based Dart Transit Co. will use Qualcomm Inc.’s [QCOM] OmniTracs satellite-based mobile information management system for its fleet. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Dart Transit is purchasing...

A major solar flare on February 17 had the potential to do some serious damage to both geostationary and LEO satellites. When the superheated mass, known as a coronal mass,...

Italian private TV group Mediaset on February 6 bought a 10 per cent stake in business news channel Class Financial Network (CFN), backed by financial publisher Class Editori and a...

La Sept/Arte, the French arm of the Franco-German arts channel Arte, is setting up unit for thematic channels, headed by Helene Mochiri. The first of these, in partnership with Robert...

Complaints about a programme on Flextech-owned Bravo were upheld by the ITC this week. Real TV broadcast in October showed a story where a 13 year-old boy died in a...

Canal+ Horizons, the Canal Plus channel for Africa and the Middle East, is to launch a digital platform for Algeria, transmitting from Hotbird. The bouquet will contain 17 channels to...