TPS Gets Football Boost In France
French satellite pay-TV operator TPS is celebrating after the Paris Appeals Court approved a new agreement thrashed out between itself, pay-TV rival Canal+, and the Ligue Francais de Football (LFP)...
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Viaccess Ready To Fight Back
Viaccess CEO Jean-Pierre Coustel is in a belligerent mood. The French conditional access (CA) vendor has had a tough few months that culminated in one of its leading customers, satellite...
Study: Untapped Revenues for Satellites in Access, Distribution Markets
Satellite service providers have made limited inroads in the enterprise IP data networking market, notes Northern Sky Research in its latest series of research report entitled “Satellite IP Data Services...
EMS Delivers Antenna Component for DoD EHF Satellite System
EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] said it has delivered ahead of schedule an engineering model of the beam-forming network (BFN) for the U.S. Department of Defense‘s advanced EHF satellite system. The...
Delphi Distributes XM Radios With Wal-Mart
Delphi Product & Service Solutions, a unit of Delphi Corp. [NYSE: DPH], has signed up mass retailer Wal-Mart [NYSE: WMT] to sell Delphi XM SKYFi radios and other products in...
AGS, JSAT Ink Regional Satellite Pact
Americom Government Services (AGS) and Japan’s JSAT Corp. (JSAT) have signed a business collaboration agreement to support each company’s pursuit and execution of U.S. government-related satellite-based communications services in the...
EchoStar's Revenues Jump 23 Percent
EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq:DISH] Tuesday reported 2003 first-quarter revenues of $1.36 billion, a 23 percent increase from $1.1 billion for the same period in 2002. The company’s earnings before interest, taxes,...
Inmarsat Expects Continued Growth In Data Market
London-based mobile satellite service provider Inmarsat now derives more than half of its revenues from mobile data services, according to President and CEO Michael Storey. And this growth in data...
Aaron Named President of TV Guide Television Group
Gemstar-TV Guide International [Nasdaq: GMST] has named Ian Aaron as president of its TV Guide Television Group. This newly formed group consists of the company’s TV Guide branded businesses in...
Conexant Launches MPEG-2 Digital Broadcast Decoders for Set-Top Boxes
Conexant Systems [Nasdaq:CNXT], a Newport Beach, Calif.-based provider of semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, has introduced a family of MPEG-2 audio/video decoders for cable, satellite and terrestrial set-top boxes...