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Global VSAT Forum 2000: LATIN AMERICA will be this year’s only worldwide VSAT industry meeting devoted to examination of the VSAT industry’s growth and opportunities in Latin America. The meeting...

EMS Technologies Inc. of Norcross, Ga., [LMG] has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of a Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES)/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used...

Laurel, Md.-based Cidera Inc. (formerly SkyCache Inc.) an Internet backbone, announced last week that Telenor, Norway’s leading telecom, has reached an agreement to use Cidera’s satellite-delivered Usenet News service. The...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said roaming service is now available to its subscribers between almost 30 countries in North and South America and Europe, where Globalstar gateways are in full operation....

With all indicators that the Internet will be playing a more prominent role in the future of the satellite industry, American Mobile Satellite Corp. [SKYC] announced that, effective April 24,...

A close look at the proposed, re-organized global, mobile, satellite company ICO Global Communications Inc. [ICOGF] makes it very clear that the company has its work cut out for it...

CANAL+ has revealed it has allocated €255 million to fund a write-off programme of its first generation boxes. On a net basis this means €168 million is being used against...

Leading Italian pay-TV operator Tele+ has increased its subscription fees, from the beginning of May. The cheapest package, Digi, will now sell at L21,000 (€10.85) , while the Basic package...

EUTELSAT is in a quandary. Still smarting by the ‘loss’ of six crucial transponders to SES from its EuroBird slot, destined to be co-located at 28.2-29 degrees East alongside SES’s...

EMS Technologies Inc has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of an SES/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used the Digital Video Broadcast – Return Channel via...