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Optus, the Australian telco, is celebrating 20 years in the space industry, marking the launch of the A1 satellite in 1985. Along with Singtel, Optus offers customers access to more...

At the SATELLITE 2004 Conference and Exhibition opening general session, Panamsat CEO Joe Wright stated that strategic business maneuvers, instead of global operator-to-global operator consolidation, would hallmark near-term FSS industry...

By Gerry Oberst Toward the end of this month, the European Commission, together with the U.K. government, will sponsor a major event in Liverpool, England, on revising the Television Without...

By Jason Bates As technology makes the world smaller, expatriate populations are finding it easier to maintain links with their home countries. Large concentrations of immigrants and first- and second-generation...

By Julie Blondeau Samuel In 2004, the Latin American economy began to take an upward turn as its gross domestic product (GDP) increased 5.5 percent from the previous year, reaching...

By Peter J. Brown As broadcasters and direct-to-home (DTH) service providers prepare for the future, the migration from the established MPEG-2 encoding solution to a much more bandwidth- efficient solution...

People EMS SATCOM Appoints Account Manager EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., appointed Tony Caruso as account manager of EMS Satcom’s Commercial and Corporate Aviation Sales division. Caruso...

Banamex executives at the Mexico subsidiary of Citibank wanted to provide better services to its employees and customers. Connecting 1,300 branches across Mexico in a cost-effective manner, however, was a...

For National Gypsum’s IT department, its network is more than just an afterthought: it is an integral part of the company’s success and is considered as important to growing the...

Most corporations, when looking for ways to reduce overhead costs and increase employee output, are using satellite-based communications to significantly improve their communications and productivity. Today, Hollywood and Madison Avenue...