Month: June 2005

Etihad Airways Adds Connexion Service

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will install the Connexion by Boeing Internet and television service aboard its 25 aircraft, Boeing announced June 14. Etihad, based...

Sirius Goes Mobile With Sprint

Sirius Satellite Radio signed an agreement with Sprint to make select Sirius channels available to Sprint PCS Vision customers, Sirius announced June 14. Music channels under evaluation by Sprint include...

Arianespace To Launch BSat-3a

Arianespace announced June 14 that the Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. of Japan (BSat) awarded Arianespace a contract to launch the BSat-3a spacecraft. The satellite will be launched on an Ariane...

KDDI To Offer Iridium In Japan

Iridium Satellite LLC said June 13 that KDDI Network & Solutions Inc. received authorization from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to offer mobile phone and data services...

Polarsat Introduces SkyIP 600

Polarsat Inc. announced the market launch of its SkyIP 600 remote terminal, which provides satellite functionality for demand networks combined with TCP/IP functionality for Internet Protocol(IP)-based services and Web access....