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Australian giant Telstra [TLS], like other phone companies around the world, is struggling with declining payphone revenues due to increased use of cellphones. As such, it is running a trial...

The global satellite industry has been working for more than a year to develop guidelines to present to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for passage next month in Geneva. If...

With News Corp’s [NWS] entrance into the U.S. pay-TV market through DirecTV, competition in the interactive arena is likely to heat up. One of the likely beneficiaries of the move...

Australian telco Optus is expecting its new broadband satellite product to usher in a new dawn for satellite communications in Australia. The operator launched its Optus Broadband Satellite product last...

The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is moving forward on its inaugural industry event, the GEOINT 2004 Symposium, slated for Oct. 12-14 in New Orleans. The Va.- based non-profit foundation,...

Week of August 20-26, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Aug. 26 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.41 1.4 (6.6) (20.8) (40.8)...

Warren Hardy, managing director of Optus Wholesale and Satellite, is optimistic that his company’s recently launched satellite broadband product will prove to be a hit in rural and remote Australia,...

According to the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), a U.S. bankruptcy judge approved its final settlement of legal disputes brought by Pegasus Satellite Television against the group. NRTC added that...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted PanAmSat Corp. conditional authority to operate the C-band communications payload and the Ku-band telemetry, tracking and command stations aboard its PAS-9 satellite from the...

Satellite Today learned that the U.S. Air Force awarded a $54 million launch contract to The Boeing Co. [BA] that calls for the use of four Delta II rockets to...