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Premiere World gains Nuremberg redundancy

In an aim to counteract signal blackouts and picture disturbances during extreme weather, heavy rainfalls or thunderstorms in Munich, Premiere World has installed a second uplink site in Nuremberg. The...

FSP takes SES Eurobird capacity

Plans by German service provider Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) to offer cable companies a bundled selection of foreign radio and TV channels for distribution to their subscribers have taken a step further....

Alcatel's busy summer

Alcatel is having a busy summer. In addition to delivering the payloads for ‘Rock’ and ‘Roll’ for XM Radio, the company claims it has won a very respectable 27 per...

DARS hits NAB snag

The influential National Association of Broadcasters is lobbying the US Government to deny requests from satellite radio outfits XM Radio and Sirius to obtain frequencies for terrestrial retransmission of their...

Sky tempts analogue laggards

Julian Clover Managing Editor Sky Digital is doing its utmost to squeeze out the remaining analogue subscribers ahead of the closure of its three remaining analogue channels at midnight on...

Telekom in Astra ADSL plan

In an aim to counteract the growing competition from the new owners of its former cable networks in the prospering market for broadband Internet access, Deutsche Telekom has signed a...

Satellite Internet Starspeeder in trouble

Starspeeder, the Internet via satellite service operated by Luxembourg-based media company Communication and Banking Equipment Luxembourg (CBL), has run into difficulties. Both its Austrian sales partner Skysurf (http://www.skysurf.at) and its...