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Gerry Oberst In late July, the U.K. government released a substantial report, two years in the making, to evaluate its funding for civil space activities. Although the United Kingdom has...

Theresa Foley With first generation Ka-band satellite systems still on the ground and far from being a sure thing, the action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in August to...

Theresa Foley A year ago, the excitement about streaming–a new Internet-based business that promised to eat up lots of satellite and terrestrial capacity and provide the basis for dozens of...

Armand Musey XM Radio re-ceivers became available in Dallas and Phoenix in September, the service is rolling out in the southwest in October, and should be available throughout the entire...

Peter J. Brown Hybrid wireless/satellite (HWS) networks can be deployed anywhere. Using an antenna on a tower or a building to create a secondary terrestrial wireless footprint within a satellite...

Nick Mitsis Don’t believe for a minute they are merely capacity brokers, and whatever you do, be sure to refuse the notion that global satellite operators are past their prime,...

James Careless Some months ago, (December 2000, p. 38-48), Via Satellite profiled the unsung heroes of Satellite News Gathering (SNG). Specifically, we focused on the SNG uplink operators who get...

US-based media company AOL Time Warner is to become a shareholder in Viva 2, the soon-to-be revamped sister service of German music channel Viva. According to a statement issued last...

National Geographic Channel has just launched on the French Canal Satellite Numérique, following the signature with Canal Satellite in July. This brings the doc channel to a total of 134...

One of the repercussions of the Vivendi-Universal merger is that it is getting increasingly difficult to get detailed information on the activity of subsidiaries. Interspace did manage to glean one...