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INTELSAT MOVES INTO AFRICA

Intelsat opened its first African office in Sandton, a Johannesburg suburb, on June 1. According to Conny Kullman, Intelsat’s CEO, some 8 per cent of the operator’s global revenue of...

ELLIPSO LOSES LEO LICENCE

It seems another planned LEO service has hit the financial brick-wall. Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. (MCHI), a Washington-based company planning to deploy the proposed Ellipso mobile satellite service (MSS) system,...

ELSTEIN SLAMS UK ANALOGUE WASTE

Former Channel 5 CEO David Elstein has roundly condemned current UK thinking on the analogue switch-off date, which will take place when 95 per cent of homes have converted to...

GERMAN YOUTH CHANNEL RADIO 22 ON ASTRA

Radio 22, a local FM youth channel based in Trier, intends to become available to a pan-European audience by transmitting on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East). This was...

IRAN'S FIRST ZOHREH "IN TWO YEARS"

A Tehran news agency has reported that Iran will launch Zohreh, its Russian-built communications satellite, within two years. The agency quoted university professor Mehran Mirshams as saying that the Zohreh...

EDEL MUSIC LEAVES VIVA AS SHAREHOLDER

The German music company Edel Music will sell its 12.1 per cent stake in VIVA to Initiatoren Drei Kapitalbeteiligung, a newly founded investment company formed by VIVA Media’s chairman Dieter...

ELLIPSO LOSES LEO LICENCE

It seems another planned LEO service has hit the financial brick-wall. Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. (MCHI), a Washington-based company planning to deploy the proposed Ellipso mobile satellite service (MSS) system,...