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BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new...

Iran is to set up a space organisation with either Chinese or Indian help, according the deputy post, telegraph and telephone minister, Mehdi Tabeshian, speaking at the second international conference...

by Stephane Chenard One of the most exciting trends in satellite broadcasting is the use of digital technology to distribute niche programming to television viewers around the world. Thanks to...

by Peter J. Brown A global transformation is under way as rural villages and remote enterprises are tapping into the global telecommunications revolution. This huge rural market, previously unserved or...

by Theresa Foley The meltdown of the mobile satellite services (MSS) sector during the summer of 1999 may turn out to be less than a total catastrophe in the months...

Satellite projects appear to figure prominently in Cyprus Telecommunications Authority’s (CYTA) strategy to move quickly beyond the confines of Cyprus, and finding the right MSS project in which to invest...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Although the next ITU world radiocommunication conference is not scheduled until 2000, the Conference Preparatory Meeting or "CPM" for WRC-2000 is going on late this...

by Robert A. Nelson On a recent trip to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I flew from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles on a new Boeing 747-400 airplane. The geographical...

by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger According to market research firm Analysys, by 2012 the worldwide broadband, or bandwidth-on- demand, market is expected to total $990 billion (versus about $195...

Investment analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter say they expect BSkyB to achieve total digital sales of 2.4 million by the end of December. BSkyB’s net additions in the last...