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Qualcomm Boosts OmniTRACS Security Features

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] deployed two new security enhancements to its OmniTRACS satellite fleet management solution. The first is a vehicle immobilization device that allows the authorized operator of a truck...

EchoStar Redeems 10-3/8 Senior Notes Early

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] late Friday said that, effective Oct. 1, its EchoStar DBS Corp. subsidiary completed the early redemption of all outstanding 10- 3/8 percent senior notes due 2007....

Satellite Deal Of The Day

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] inked a deal to supply the Ukrainian National Lottery with a satellite-based VSAT network based on its Skystar Advantage VSAT platform. The Ukrainian National Lottery...

Ciel Wins Slot From Canadian Giant

Amid an industry-wide consolidation trend, room still exists for startup ventures that can match good ideas with sound management, financing and regulatory support. Those ingredients all are in place at...

Canada's SkyWave Tracks U.S. Customers

Ottawa, Canada-based SkyWave Mobile Communications, a provider of Inmarsat D+ satellite airtime, services and terminal equipment, is pursuing an aggressive expansion program that will seize on its recent receipt of...

GM Plans To Expand GPS Rollout

This fall, General Motors [GM] is aiming to produce 3 million vehicles in North America during the 2006 model year equipped with its Global Positioning System-enabled (GPS) OnStar in-vehicle safety...

Tapping The Remote Asset-Management Market

Asset tracking is a key “remote application” outside the mainstream wireless markets of voice, data and now video. To the companies that offer the service, including wireless and satellite providers,...