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The satellite manufacturing marketplace is seeing a number of players compete for a dwindling number of commercial orders. Talk of consolidation is rife, whether it is Lockheed Martin and Loral...

A = Analogue D = Digital 110.5 degreesE: Sinosat 1 The recent spate of illegal jamming of Chinese TV and radio transmissions using Sinosat capacity have been traced to Taiwan...

Intelsat’s two recent deals with Latin American broadcasters underline the importance the operator is placing on this market to drive revenues. Ruben Levcovitz, regional vice president for Latin America sales...

by Richard DalBello For those of you who may have slept through the entire summer, the FCC put out a Public Notice and set up a special spectrum policy task...

by Armand Musey Recently, there has been a great deal of concern about the financial viability of the two satellite radio companies, Sirius and XM Radio. We maintain our long-term...

By Nick Mitsis From broadband applications to straight telecommunications, Africa continues to grow as a major area of commercial satellite activity. Industry companies are digging deeper into this continent, further...

By Peter J. Brown In, “Ghostbusters” it is a matter of whom you are going to call. In the emerging realm of two-way broadband multimedia via Ka-band satellite, it is...

by Gerry Oberst Recently, the European Union published the new data protection directive for electronic communications services. This document applies to satellite operators just as much as it does to...

Peter J. Brown Throughout the next 18 months, the North American skyscape will undergo a significant transformation as a long-awaited sequence of commercial Ka-band satellite launches get underway. It starts...

by Theresa Foley The two entrepreneurial ventures aimed at bringing Internet services to aircraft are making headway, despite the decline in the airline industry following the events of September 11,...