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Telenor Svalbard has opened the world’s northernmost fiber-optic broadband access network at 78 degrees North, serving the citizens and businesses of Longyearbyen, Norway. Svalbard’s broadband access is supplied in partnership...

PlanetLink Communications [OTC BB: PLKC], a Cumming, Ga.-based provider of satellite-based products and services, has begun the field-testing phase of its PlanetTRAKS GPS product. Twelve PlanetTRAKS units will be installed...

General Motors [NYSE: GM] announced Monday that it would be increasing the availability of XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] on more than 50 cars and trucks in the 2005 model...

The AMC-10 satellite of SES Americom, the Princeton, N.J.-based unit of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], has been fully integrated into the fairing of the AtlasIIAS launch vehicle and is ready...

Despite overcapacity and strong competition from terrestrial networks, the fixed satellite services market in North America will continue to grow throughout the rest of the decade, according to a recent...

Integral Systems [Nasdaq: ISYS] has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) to provide an EPOCH satellite control system for JSAT Corp.’s A2100-based JCSAT-9 satellite. The system...

A first-of-its-kind Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forum last week highlighted a wide array of ways that satellites can serve rural consumers across the United States. The event’s significance was underscored...

Intensifying competition from high-powered satellite TV services has left cable TV subscriber growth at just 2 percent a year and caused certain cable operators to suffer net subscriber losses, according...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deserves high praise for holding a series of informative panel discussions last Tuesday that highlighted the ways satellites can be used to help rural Americans....

Jacob King, a 19-year-old man living in rural Abingdon, Va., is among the new breed of small businessmen who are selling merchandise with the aid of satellite Internet links. King...