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Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM], which supplies trucking companies with its satellite-based OmniTracs automatic vehicle location and tracking service, has begun a program to expand the service to metropolitan fleet owners, privates...

NEW YORK–Market understanding and flexibility will be the keys to success for next-generation broadband satellite systems. “We are getting close to realizing the next generation of broadband systems,” said Eugene...

Iridium LLC could end up becoming the Timex of the mobile satellite industry – it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. In the latest news, the debtors of Iridium...

Walter Purnell, president and CEO of Motient Corp. [MTNT], recently sat down with MOBILE SATELLITE NEWS to discuss the role that a terrestrial wireless data network has played in a...

Enterprise Value And Hot Spot Capability One fantastic phenomenon of the turbulent stock market is the huge enterprise value of Globalstar L.P [GSTRF] relative to other satellite programs. During May,...

Sea Launch has said it has completed its analysis of its launch failure last March 12 and is ready to return to flight late next month. Its next launch will...

BSkyB launched its Sky News Active digital service Monday (June 27). The system uses the equivalent of two digital transmission streams to deliver up to five simultaneous channels on mini-screens....

A new meeting between Telecom Italia president Roberto Colaninno and News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch regarding the future of Italian digital satellite TV platform Stream is planned for this week....

German digital pay-TV platform operator Premiere World is considering a return to retail sales in addition to the currently favoured rental model. According to industry sources, it is planned to...

BBC Worldwide says its aggregated distribution count for its global channels now tops 300 million homes. Revealing details from BBC Worldwide’s Annual Report & Accounts (to March 31 this year),...