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Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] of Hauppauge, N.Y., said it has won a $2.4 million contract to supply a new South Korean telecommunications company with a Ka-band earth station network. The […]

Intellicom Inc. of Livermore, Calif., said it has signed agreement with six companies to supply satellite-based, two-way Internet services. Intellicom is a subsidiary of SoftNet Systems Inc. [SOFN]. “Intellicom’s target […]

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] said it has signed a three-year agreement making it the exclusive supplier of mobile satellite services to Raytheon Marine Co. in the United States and Caribbean. […]

TMI Communications of Ottawa, the mobile satellite subsidiary of BCE Inc. [BCE], has been licensed by the Venezuelan government to market all of its mobilesat services in that country. Together […]

Stratos Global Corp. of Toronto [SGB], a supplier of remote and mobile communications, said it will provide telecom services for more than 600 fixed VSAT sites under a contract announced […]

Dutch public broadcaster NOS and the local Amsterdam channel AT5 agreed with Chello broadband Internet for transmissions in broadband quality. Chello, owned by UPC, is the only one who offers […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat-2E D – Doordarshan’s DD1, the national service, has been […]

Staff at German news channel n-tv apparently expect the Berlin-based broadcaster to be integrated into the RTL channel family this year. According to n-tv’s programme director, Helmut Brandstatter, it is […]

German anti-media concentration commission Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) has approved BSkyB’s investment in Premiere World. Through subsidiary BSkyB Germany, the UK-based pay-TV group will take a […]

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone for National Affairs, Mehdi Tabeshian, said that the tender process to build the national satellite Zohreh is underway, although he did not […]

Italian portal and Yellow Pages publisher Seat Pagine Gialle has agreed to buy 75 per cent of terrestrial TV broadcaster TMC for L750 billion (E387 million). Seat, which is merging […]

The Eutelsat orbital constellation (Interspace 699, page 8) was badly affected by printer’s gremlins. The corrected version appears below. For good order’s sake it is also worth clarifying that the […]

Kardio-TV, the German medical channel planned by Munich-based Doc-Media AG in co-operation with Beta Business TV, a subsidiary of Kirch Group, intends to reach 3,000 doctors when it launches via […]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is to use an end-to-end digital transmission solution provided by BT Broadcast Services to deliver live coverage from the Sydney Olympics to television viewers across […]

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Broadcasting (IRIB), Ali Larijani, has said that Iran has plans to transmit IRIB programmes to people across Europe and Middle East. Speaking […]

UK-based communications and Internet company Energis has taken its first step into the interactive digital TV market by launching a “unique” multi-channel package for corporate content providers. To help it […]

Communications company Inmarsat Ventures Ltd reported pre-tax profit of $63.4 million (E70.50m) on revenue of $210.6 million (E234.18m) for the first half year of 2000 ended June 30. This represents […]

Italian Serie A football club Napoli has succeeded in obtaining an away win in its battle with Milan-based pay-TV operator Tele+ over TV rights. A Milan court ruled in favour […]

Satellite transmissions of Albanian Television (TVSh) resumed via Eutelsat on August 15 after a six-month break. Previously, the programmes went out on Eutelsat W2 at 16 degrees East. The broadcasts […]

Here is the problem: you are a broadcaster needing to quickly organise an ENG unit and satellite uplink in some far-off spot for a news feed or sports event. Your […]

A commercial Delta 3 rocket will be launched next week with a simulated payload that The Boeing Co. [BA], the U.S. Air Force and the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research […]

iSky, a Denver, Colo., company that is developing a Ka-band satellite system for two-way Internet access has changed its name to WildBlue Communications, claiming that the name “embodies the frontier […]

Comsat Corp.’s [CQ] 38-year existence as an independent company came to an end this month when Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] completed its purchase of Comsat, following final approval from the […]

A Starsem Soyuz-Fregat rocket carried out the launch of the final two Cluster 2 scientific satellites for the European Space Agency (ESA) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff on Aug. […]

Space Media Inc., a subsidiary of SpaceHab Inc. [SPAB], officially solidified its joint venture with RSC Energia Aug. 3. The two companies now are completing their business and marketing plans. […]

An unmanned Russian supply Progress rocket blasted off Aug. 6 to link up to the International Space Station. Progress was carrying fuel, technical equipment, food and water for the space […]

New Skies Satellite NV, the private satellite operator already spun off from Intelsat, has contracted with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems for the turnkey construction of its seventh satellite, NSS […]

NetSat Express Inc., a provider of Internet connectivity services by satellite and a majority-owned subsidiary of Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM], announced the signing of a three-year contract with Microtec, an […]

Trimble Navigation Ltd. [TRMB], of Sunnyvale, Calif., has won a three-year contract to supply its high precision 4700 GPS receivers for SuomiNet, a university-based, national GPS network that is being […]

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [SIRI] said in-orbit testing of its first radio broadcasting satellite, Sirius 1, was completed successfully July 31, with all systems performing to specifications. Sirius is one […]