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An important avenue of new subscriber sales for EchoStar Communications [DISH] did not quite meet Wall Street expectations Friday. The satellite television service’s partnership with telecommunications services provider SBC Communications...

Ottawa, Canada-based C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI] found in its eighth year of operation that deploying an innovative and cost-effective technology in the slowly growing satellite broadband market niche ultimately...

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] joined the big leagues of sports-programming rights holders last week when it agreed to spend $650 million to air all the Major League Baseball...

Orland Park, Ill.-based Andrew Corporation [ANDW], a communications systems equipment supplier, earlier this month created a product group focused exclusively on satellites and formed a second group that combines antennas...

Telecommuters have a new way to connect to the office through a partnership between Bedminster, N.J.-based Loral Skynet’s SkyReach Service and Remote Work Central, a provider of telecommuting and teleworking...

A diverse group of organizations that all benefit from the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA) jointly signed a letter urging all 100 U.S. senators to pass a House- approved...

Ka-band has finally arrived. The progress has been aided with the Anik F2 deployed and ready to provide Ka-band service for Telesat Canada and WildBlue along with the successful launch...

Who’s Doing What? What To Expect Near-Term What It All Means The U.S. Defense Department (DoD) received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved to use the 2025-2110 MHz band on a...

It was an encouraging but not a completely reassuring sign that Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] hit the 700,000-subscriber mark Oct. 18. The milestone suggests that the company ended third-quarter 2004...

Prospective satellite-TV subscribers appear to be responding to the joint efforts of SBC Communications [SBC] and EchoStar Communications [DISH]. The SBC-DISH branded service is gaining new subscribers but it also...