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TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has received a contract to provide satellite hardware to the Program Management Defense Communications and Army Transmission System team under the World Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS)...

Israeli direct-to-home operator Yes has seen slow subscriber growth throughout the past 12 months, but reduced its overall losses. Yes had 542,000 subscribers at the end of March, an increase...

Telkonet Inc. subsidiary Microwave Satellite Technology Inc.  (MST) closed a $9.1 million private placement, MST announced May 30. MST offers quadruple-play services, including satellite TV service, to multi-tenant unit and...

GlobeCast’s direct-to-home (DTH) satellite brand, WorldTV, has expanded into Europe with the launch of a new bouquet of seven South Asian channels on the Intelsat 905 satellite at 35.5° East,...

Showtime, a Middle Eastern director-to-home operator, will add Showcomedy Extra to its bouquet this week, the company announced. The operator, which competes against DTH operators Art and Orbit, recently completed...

Globalstar Inc. placed four satellites into orbit May 30 that are intended to augment the company’s failing first-generation constellation, the company announced. The satellites were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at...

C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. opened a service and support center in Beijing, the company announced May 29. The center will be operated by Hua Sheng & Li Tian Technology Co....

Thrane & Thrane has signed Stratos as a distributor for satellite radio and land mobile and maritime communication equipment, Thrane announced May 29. Stratos will sell products to Stratos-appointed indirect...

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., has made some of the technology behind its satellite navigation products available to the public, hoping to spur development of new applications...

OmniGlobe Networks has rolled out OmniCenter, a network management software system that combines satellite and WiMAX network management, operations monitoring and bandwidth optimization, the company announced May 29. OmniCenter is...