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A Worldspace official said last week that the company plans to launch its third satellite on Ariane later this year. The craft will provide coverage over South and Central America....

Telecom Italia’s business unit Satellite Services, which lists Telespazio as its principal operative asset, has announced several changes to its management structure. While Salvatore Pinto, the ex-CEO of Olivetti-Wang Global...

NTL is considering selling its broadcast transmission business. Speaking at the Merrill Lynch TMT conference in London, CEO Stephen Carter said it is continuing with plans to create a tracking...

The VSAT world, hitherto almost exclusively business-to-business or intra-business, is beginning to change. Such was the message conveyed by the third VSAT-2001 conference, mounted recently in London by ComSys. For...

Granada’s three GSB channels, co-owned with BSkyB, moved into profit during the six months ending March 31. The three channels, Granada Breeze, Men & Motors, and Granada Plus, increased revenue...

Belgian travel channel Liberty TV will join Germany’s digital pay-TV platform Premiere World on July 1. However, according to information obtained by Interspace, it will at first only be available...

SES has demonstrated the capabilities of the Astra Broadband Interactive System to delegates at the Radio, Electrical & Television Retailers’ Association (RETRA) annual conference on the island of Jersey. By...

According to US press reports, European satellite manufacturer Astrium has held talks in the last eight months over a possible link-up with Loral Space & Communications and separately Lockheed Martin....

Russia has exported four rocket booster units to India, with the option of the country taking a further three, allowing it to implement its satellite launch programme before 2005. The...

New Skies Satellites has signed a major contract with the Taiwanese telecoms company New Century Info Comm (NCIC). Under it, NCIC will provide the telco, which was recently awarded fixed...