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COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support […]

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later […]

LEADING French commercial TV network TF1 is seriously considering the possibility of buying a stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream. TF1’s interest in Stream was confirmed on May 3 by […]

TV2, Norway’s leading commercial operation, and so far the only private station with a national terrestrial licence, is about too part with its 16 per cent ownership of Canal Digital […]

NO NAME yet for the UK’s very own answer to AOL-Time Warner – the merged Telewest-Flextech. However, ever-reticent CEO Adam Singer has revealed that in his view the worst suggestion […]

Cambridge Industries, the Berkshire-based LNB manufacturer has been sold to the American owned dish manufacturer Channel Master for $35 million. The deal was put together by the 3i Technology Group, […]

Multichoice has confirmed it will start a digital service to sub-Saharan Africa using Eutelsat (Interspace 692). The service will launch late June 2000, following the deployment and testing of the […]

The Jordanian government has started fleshing out its plans to establish a free media zone in the Kingdom, officials said on May 4. Minister of Culture and Information Salih Qallab […]

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is in the midst of efforts to reform its operations and functioning. The Working Group on Reform, or WGR, will […]

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger In mid-March, Hughes was up significantly on speculation that News Corp. (NWS) was considering purchasing General Motors (GM) in order to obtain control of […]

by Peter J. Brown As the U.S. cable TV industry deploys high-speed, two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks, the use of satellite-based distribution is expanding despite the increasing presence of fiber. […]

By Robert Nelson Rain affects the transmission of an electromagnetic signal in three ways: (1) It attenuates the signal; (2) it increases the system noise temperature; and (3) it changes […]

By Theresa Foley The debate over bent pipe versus onboard processing is picking up steam as the dozen or so satellite broadband projects come closer to fruition. If William Shakespeare […]

by Clayton Mowry The thrill is gone. Our 15 minutes is over. Satellites are old news. According to the word on the street, the hype and excitement that surrounded the […]

by James Careless Everything comes with a price and that includes success. No one knows this better than the professionals in the satellite earth station market. It’s been experiencing explosive […]

AssureSat Inc., a company established to provide satellites in orbit to step in when there is a launch failure or a satellite already in service fails, has awarded Space Systems/Loral […]

Air travel soon will become more pleasurable. At least that is the hope of The Boeing Co. [BA] officials who, on April 27, unveiled a new business segment. Called Connexion […]

Business development executives seeking profits from the Internet-via-satellite marketplace need to focus on e-commerce opportunities in the right geographic locations if projections are accurate according to a new study. Currently, […]

Raytheon Co. [RTNA] has won a contract to provide the Advanced Meteorological Imager for Japan’s MTSat 1R, a combined weather and air traffic control satellite for the Japanese Ministry of […]

The Japanese Ministry of Transport and the Japanese Meteorological Agency have begun their procurement of a second satellite in their new series of MTSat combined air traffic control and weather […]

In a move that will boost the GPS industry and worldwide confidence in the U.S. system at a critical time, President Clinton announced May 1 that he ordered an end […]

GOES L, the fourth in the current generation of advanced, geostationary weather satellites, was launched May 3 aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. The launch was delayed about one year because […]

A close look at the proposed, re-organized global, mobile, satellite company ICO Global Communications Inc. [ICOGF] makes it very clear that the company has its work cut out for it […]

With all indicators that the Internet will be playing a more prominent role in the future of the satellite industry, American Mobile Satellite Corp. [SKYC] announced that, effective April 24, […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said roaming service is now available to its subscribers between almost 30 countries in North and South America and Europe, where Globalstar gateways are in full operation. […]

Laurel, Md.-based Cidera Inc. (formerly SkyCache Inc.) an Internet backbone, announced last week that Telenor, Norway’s leading telecom, has reached an agreement to use Cidera’s satellite-delivered Usenet News service. The […]

EMS Technologies Inc. of Norcross, Ga., [LMG] has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of a Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES)/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used […]

Global VSAT Forum 2000: LATIN AMERICA will be this year’s only worldwide VSAT industry meeting devoted to examination of the VSAT industry’s growth and opportunities in Latin America. The meeting […]

In the last issue of Mobile Satellite News, Dennis Billard, vice president at Telesat Canada was quoted as citing market estimations for broadband services to reach $37 billion in revenues […]

Disney Channel UK has confirmed it will launch ‘Toon Disney’, already a popular channel in the United States, this autumn on SkyDigital and digital cable. It will form part of […]