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Encore Networks executives say the company recently completed certification testing between the ViaSat [VSAT] LinkStar IP satellite terminal, and Encore’s VSR-30 and Bandit product lines. Encore says the combined platform...

SES Americom, a unit of SES Global, said today that the company signed a deal to deliver live and recorded programming from XY.tv. XY.tv is a 24-hour network of original...

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] officials said their satellite radio service this Wednesday will debut XM America Left, a new talk-radio channel dedicated to “progressive” political viewpoints. America Left’s daily program...

NDS CEO Abe Peled expects the main 2004 growth drivers for the company to come from lucrative contracts in Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. NDS recently...

Luxembourg-based SES Global, the world’s largest satellite operating company, appears to be bottoming out and heading for a financial upswing starting next year. That is the view of key satellite...

The original investors of low-Earth-orbit satellite services Iridium and Globalstar who lost nearly all their money could not be blamed for regretting that either multi-billion dollar venture was built. Now...

The high-stakes battles that pit price-gouging television programmers against increasingly resistant satellite and cable TV service providers are becoming more frequent than ever, and Congress is taking notice. Consumers are...

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a provider of satellite broadband services through its DirecWay brand, has introduced a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access service aimed at such consumer-oriented businesses as...

By Maury Mechanick, White & Case LLP For awhile, it was beginning to appear as though the former intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in the satellite industry never were going to go...

Nebozzo, a 50/50 joint venture between U.S. investment companies TPG and Spectrum has in the last few days has taken a 9-percent+ stake in Eutelsat. This includes the stake previously...