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France Telecom’s Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in the Middle...

Telesat Canada on Feb. 20 experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic....

Satellite capacity will play a bigger role in Asia, particularly in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where there are fewer terrestrial alternatives for telecoms and data services, according to...

By Juliette Salvati Considered by many, in the 1990s, to be the next big step in satellite communications, and subsequently rejected at the outset of the tech bubble crash, the...

Boeing has high hopes for its Connexion service, an airline in-flight broadband service aimed at providing passengers with better entertainment and Internet access via satellite. Recently, Boeing signed a deal...

What a difference a couple of months make. When Interspace spoke to New Skies Satellites CEO Dan Goldberg in November (Interspace, issue 757), the operator was confident that it would...

BSkyB could reach the magic seven million subscriber by the middle of the year, some six months ahead of schedule. The operator added 244,000 subscribers in the quarter ending Dec....

Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [NYSE: LOR], provided in-orbit capacity to assist Discovery Health Network in presenting a live broadcast from inside maternity wards of hospitals...

The continent of Africa offers some strong growth opportunities for satellite and mobile telecom operators, according to a study by CIT-PriMetrica. CIT-PriMetrica’s “Yearbook of African Telecommunications for 2003,” to be...

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] is providing broadband satellite communications equipment and services to support an important new joint venture in Mexico between GlobalSat and Intelsat Global Service. GlobalSat is...