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Despite the downturn in the so-called dot.com ‘boom’, the past four years has seen internet traffic using satellite grow by an average of 56 per cent a year, says a...

A=Analog D=Digital 68.5 degreesE: PAS 4 & 7 D The replacement for PAS 4, PAS 10, was successfully launched from Baikonur on May 15 at 01:11 aboard a Proton rocket....

Ericsson is suing LEO platform GlobalStar for $31 million in damages for failing to buy enough handsets. According to a Globalstar SEC filing, Ericsson claims Globalstar failed to honour two...

by Armand Musey Our research team found a new home at Salomon Smith Barney. This changing of firms required us to reinitiate coverage of the group, which gave us the...

by Gerry Oberst A few years ago, I described plans in Europe to develop a more efficient licensing structure for satellite networks and services. Called the “one stop shop” (OSS),...

by Clayton Mowry Take a quick look at the global stock exchanges today–the Nikkei in Japan, New York’s NASDAQ or Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Paris CAC-40, London’s FTSE, and...

By Peter J. Brown Earth stations no longer fit into a neat, narrowly defined category. No, VSAT vendors are not threatened by any attempt to expand the definition of earth...

By Robert Wold The most useful advice heard during the day-long nightmare was “Never try to catch a falling knife.” It was that Meltdown Monday in March when free-falling NASDAQ...

By Nick Mitsis Launch vehicle providers are fighting an uphill battle as they try to increase their profit margins within a highly competitive marketplace. The keys to success, according to...

Axcent Media AG will shortly unveil their second generation PVR unit, which they claim is the “world’s most advanced”. Their Mk 1 machine was launched in Germany last year under...