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An Interview With Giuliano Berretta After years of dominance by U.S. companies and the international consortium, Intelsat, in the field of global satellite operations, it may come as a surprise...

by Jimmy Schaeffler When viewing the basic data that underlies the growth of today’s U.S. Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) industry, the numbers are impressive, no matter where your bias lies....

by Peter J. Brown Bandwidth trading appears to be hot topic, although the satellite industry has mixed feelings about the feasibility of this new way of doing business. The London...

by James Careless Wedged between the United States and the rest of the world, Canada is a country caught in the middle. On one hand, it has unparalleled access to...

A New Challenge For Satellites Of course, dear comrades, you remember HAL from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. And, of course, you realize we’re now in 2001. So...

by Gerry Oberst The U.S. space industry should benefit from the conclusions of a recent panel set up to assess the U.S. national security space management and organizational structure. In...

by Armand Musey Late last year, we downgraded the DBS stocks over concerns of near-term deterioration in their business model. Throughout 2000, we have noticed that DBS subscriber acquisition costs...

Swiss commercial broadcaster Tele 24 has received a licence to launch a financial news channel. Money 24 will be Switzerland’s first domestic channel concentrating on financial news and information and...

Intelsat is providing a full duplex Ku-band OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) link to China over its 174 degrees East satellite slot, in order to restore service to millions of Internet users...

PanAmSat Corporation’s PAS-1R satellite – the replacement for the world’s first commercial international communications spacecraft PAS-1 – is now in place at its permanent orbital slot at 45 degrees West...