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India takes slow steps towards DTH

Radhakrishna Rao, Interspace’s correspondent in Bangalore, India, delivers a timely overview of the current prospects for DTH India is not a newcomer to the area of direct satellite broadcasting technology....

Mixed forecasts on UK digital take up

Two reports on UK digital TV offer mixed views of future take up. One somewhat pessimistic report from Optimedia suggests that digital take-up in the UK is about to dramatically...

EchoStar adds 500,000 subs

EchoStar Communications added around 495,000 new subscribers to its DISH Network DTH television service during the fourth quarter of 2000, a 16 per cent increase on Q4 1999. It ended...

Transponder Monitor

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D=Digital A=Analogue 68.5°E: PAS-4 & 7 A Simaye Azadi Iranian National TV has launched on 11170MHz horizontal in clear...

News Bytes...

BSkyB’s chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein, speaking at the Financial Times broadcasting conference, accused the UK government’s policymakers of “a deliberate unwillingness to understand what the digital satellite proposition is...

Common Ground: Adam Smith In Space

by Clayton Mowry The 18th century author of The Wealth of Nations probably never thought about space or satellites in orbit. Yet Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand of...

Web Exclusive: Broadband in Japan

Delivering Content To The Edge Of The Net According to Japan’s Telecommunications White Paper 2000, Internet end-users in Japan reached 27 million at the end of 1999 and end-user subscriber...