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Stratos Global Corp., a global communications provider and distributor of Inmarsat satellite services, announced March 14 it won a National Individual Standing Offer (NISO) awarded by the Canadian Department of...

Ascent Media Network Services (AMNS) announced March 14 that Peter Brickman has been named managing director of content distribution for North America by AMNS COO Margaret Craig, to whom Brickman...

Glowlink announced March 14 the rollout of a geolocation product with integrated interference detection and monitoring capability. Targeted for the satellite communications market, the new product can detect interference or...

Gilat Satellite Networks won a key contract in Latin America in terms of boosting education resources to classrooms in Mexico. The company announced March 14 that a consortium of leading...

High-definition (HD) channel provider Euro1080 has begun broadcasting HDTV footage of the Winter Olympics, the company announced. Euro1080 will use Astra, Sirius, Eutelsat and more than 35 cable and Internet...

Com Dev International Ltd. recorded revenues of Cdn. $32.7 million ($28.2 million) in its 2005 first quarter, up 7.5 percent from revenues of Cdn. $30.4 million ($26.2 million) in the...

Telesat Canada set records for full-year revenues and earnings, reporting a profit of Cdn. $88.9 million ($76.6 million) in 2005, as revenues jumped 31 percent to Cdn. $474.7 million ($409...

Euronews announced the appointment of Eurochannel as its exclusive representative for South America. Eurochannel’s mission will be to extend the distribution network of the multi language news channel across the...

Arianespace kicked off its 2006 launch calendar with an Ariane 5 ECA placing a pair telecommunications satellites in orbit March 11. The Spainsat governmental telecommunications spacecraft and the Eutelsat Hot...

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd awarded Panamsat Corp. a $44.2 million contract to oversee the launch of the Measat 1R satellite, Measat announced March 10. The spacecraft will be launched...