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Greg Ewertis Iridium Satellite LLC‘s new executive vice president for sales, marketing and business development. Ewert comes to Iridium with 19 years of telecom-industry experience, recently serving as executive vice...

Iridium Satellite LLC said the U.S. Department of Defense has exercised an option on its airtime contract, giving military personnel and other authorized users unlimited airtime on Iridium’s satellite-based communications...

Jon Romm, president of Intelsat‘s Media and Entertainment Business Unit, believes the progress of high-definition TV (HDTV) in North America will stimulate other markets around the world. Romm told Satellite...

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) is concerned about the rise in illegal satellite-phone usage in that country, and it has asked legitimate satellite service providers like Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company...

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. [XMSR] announced a quarterly dividend on its 8.25- percent Series B Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock, payable in shares of the company’s Class A Common Stock...

Telesat said its Anik F2 satellite now is fully operational, ushering in what the company hopes will be a new era in satellite broadband communications. The satellite will provide a...

The AMC-15 telecommunications satellite, designed and built for Princeton, N.J.-based satellite operator SES Americom by Bethesda, Md.’s Lockheed Martin [LMT], is entering the final stages of preparation for an Oct....

The DirecTV Group Inc. [DTV] and News Corp [NWS] announced plans to combine their Latin American satellite TV operations. The arrangement will give DirecTV control of the surviving operation while...

The satellite-TV industry showed once again last week that it lacks the political muscle to fend off the powerful National Association of Broadcast-ers (NAB) and the National Cable & Telecommunications...

Legislation to re-authorize the Satellite Home Viewer Improve-ment Act (SHVIA) will need to wait for Senate action until lawmakers return from an election-related recess that began at the close of...