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Stratos, a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of remote communication solutions and services, plans to offer Inmarsat Fleet 55 and 33 voice and data services worldwide in June. The Fleet product range...

Peugeot Motor Co. has begun offering Smartnav satellite navigation products as an approved accessory across its entire U.K. model range. Peugeot sold in excess of 200,000 cars in the United...

DigitalGlobe, a Longmont, Colo.-based satellite imagery firm, has opened an office in Washington D.C., to serve the company’s U.S. government customers. The office will be led by Dawn Sienicki, former...

Government support for satellite broadband services, which has contributed significantly to the use of broadband technologies in South Korea, is expected to be replicated in many countries of the Asia-Pacific...

European ISP Tiscali [Milan: TIS.MI] is forming a partnership with fixed-satellite service operator Eutelsat in order to accelerate their broadband subscriber numbers. Tiscali signed a deal with Eutelsat on May...

The U.S. commercial remote sensing industry should receive a boost from a new Bush administration policy that calls for the U.S. government to use private sector satellite imagery whenever practical....

New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] expects the rest of 2003 to be a banner year for the satellite radio provider in terms of subscriber growth. The company’s management...

By Fred Donovan In a curious decision, the Federal Communications Commission’s International Bureau granted a license to Digital Broadband Applications Corp. (DBAC) to use Canadian satellites to offer digital broadcast...

Two European companies with complementary attributes have agreed to become partners. Tiscali, a European Internet communication company, is teaming up with Paris-based Eutelsat to offer one-way Internet capability through Eutelsat’s...

By Steve Symonds General Motors’ [NYSE: GM] efforts to sell Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] have to be one of the most interesting sagas in the history of corporate acquisitions. For...