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XM Satellite Radio announced Oct. 3 that it added more than 617,000 new net subscribers during the third quarter 2005, a 48 percent increase compared to the more than 415,000...

Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR) announced Oct. 3 that Colin Bettam was appointed senior vice president of marketing and sales. Bettam will be responsible for overseeing all sales and marketing functions...

Path 1 Network Technologies Inc. unveiled Oct. 3 its new Professional Services Group, which is designed to support to customers adding Internet protocol (IP)- based digital TV platforms and content...

Spacehab Inc., a provider of commercial space services, announced that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary was awarded a new contract by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to provide payload-processing services Under...

Scrambling after the fact, U.S. federal agencies began deploying mobile satellite-enabled communications services to the battered U.S. Gulf Coast to fill gaps in existing commercial, federal and public safety communications...

By Gerry Oberst The European Commission earlier this year adopted the goal of encouraging member states to achieve the transition from analog to digital television by 2012. The Commission seeks...

by Peter J. Brown There is the triple play – voice, video and data, all on one bill – and then there is The Texas Triple Play. First of all,...

By Sam Silverstein Nearly three decades after the mobile satellite business took to the skies with Inmarsat’s pioneering emergency communications network for ships at sea, officials across the industry are...

By Jason Bates The more than 20 countries that make up the Middle East are thirsting for more satellite bandwidth in order to provide a wide variety of military and...

By Peter J. Brown The use of Ka-band is gaining momentum. Throughout the next year, the broadband over satellite sector in particular will know if the overall business model is...