Month: June 2004

SiriCOMM Inc. [SIRC] signed a five-year VSAT services agreement with ViaSat Inc. [VSAT]. The deal has ViaSat providing hardware, installation and services for SiriCOMM’s nationwide network. Financial terms were not...

DirecTV, the largest satellite TV service in the United States, filed suit against rival EchoStar Communications [DISH], claiming its competitor created “false and misleading” advertisements to distribute to customers in...

Officials from WildBlue Communications Inc. and KoSpace today said that the companies have signed an agreement under which KoSpace will produce Ka-band transceivers for WildBlue’s consumer and small office/home office...

Officials from Laser Recording Systems Inc. and SCL Ventures Ltd. recently said the companies have completed a share exchange and the combined companies now are operating under the name Weida...

Officials from DirecTV Inc. [DTV] and KVH Industries Inc. [KVH] said today that the companies have signed a multi-year agreement that allows customers to receive DirecTV satellite television services in...

Officials with DirecTV and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) praised a federal judge’s ruling Monday that denied a request from Pegasus Satellite Television for a temporary restraining order that...

A DirecTV Inc. [DTV] spokesman told Satellite Today today that the company will not challenge a recently proposed $87,500 fine by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The federal agency levied...

Officials from LG Electronics Inc. and LodgeNet Entertainment Corp. [LNET] today said they will be offering an end-to-end solution to deliver high-definition digital video to guest room television sets from...

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution QuickBird satellite images and Native Communities Development Corporation’s (NCDC) proprietary remote-sensing technology will be combined to aid with wildfire risk-assessment and emergency-response planning in California. The...

By Robert Bell, World Teleport Association There is an old joke in Washington, D.C., about the Department of Defense. The good news is that by 2010 (or another suitably distant...