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Satellite TV Gaining Ground

By | January 6, 2003
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its ninth annual report on competition in the market for the delivery of video programming. The report finds that cable television still is...

Nimiq 2 Launched

By | January 6, 2003
The Nimiq 2 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for Telesat Canada, was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Lift-off occurred Dec....

Comtech Gets $1.3M Order

By | January 6, 2003
Melville, N.Y.-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [CMTL] has received a $1.3 million order for satellite modems from an unidentified Asian customer for $1.3 million. The order includes the CDM-600 satellite modem...

EchoStar To Retire Notes

By | January 6, 2003
EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corp., has elected to retire all of its outstanding 9 º percent senior notes due 2006, three years early pursuant...

Beverly Deploys GPS

By | January 6, 2003
Beverly Enterprises [BEV] became the first major U.S. healthcare company to enter the field of GPS location and monitoring systems for patient care purposes when it signed a strategic alliance...

Stratos To Repay Bridge Facility

By | January 6, 2003
Stratos Global Corp., a Bethesda, Md.-based remote communication solutions and services, has reached an agreement with its lending banks regarding amendments to certain terms and conditions of its credit facilities,...

ViaSat To Supply VSATs To Mexico

By | January 6, 2003
ViaSat Inc. [VSAT] has been awarded a contract by INTERNET Directo S.A. de C.V. to provide a LinkStar broadband VSAT network for the Mexican government’s e- Mexico national IT project....