Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 01-06-10] The Australian government announced Jan. 5 an initiative to bring digital TV services via satellite to remote parts of the country.     Following a series of negotiations […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-05-10] iDirect has acquired Parallel Ltd., the U.K.-based developer of the SatManage network management software suite, iDirect announced Jan. 4.     iDirect purchased all of Parallel’s equity shares, […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-05-10] Bharti Airtel has struck a deal with All India Radio to replace the 10 WorldSpace satellite radio channels on its DTH platform in India with 10 All […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] AsiaSat signed a capacity deal with Vietnam Multimedia Corp. (VTC) for multiple Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat 5, the operator announced Dec. 31.     VTC will use the […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] The Britsh Broadcasting Corp.’s (BBC) satellite broadcast signals are being blocked by the Iranian government, the BBC announced Jan. 4.     The BBC claims that Iran has […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] XipLink has contracted Tessco Technologies as its North American value-added distributor, XipLink announced Jan. 4.     Tessco, based in Hunt Valley, Md., will provide delivery and logistics […]

[Satelllite TODAY 01-04-10] Avanti Communications will begin 2010 in good spirits after ending 2009 with a secured a debt facility of £194 million ($313.34 million) for Hylas 2 from The […]

[Satelllite News 01-04-09] Avanti Communications will begin 2010 in good spirits after ending 2009 with a secured a debt facility of £194 million ($313.34 million) for Hylas 2 from The […]

Last April, we reported on the February 2009 loan commitments extended to satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Radio by Liberty Media, which controls satellite television broadcaster DirecTV. Liberty Media functioned […]

Fred Pope comes from an economics background and says he entered the satellite sector “by accident.” But as CEO of Satcom Resources, a business that relies in large part on […]

What is broadband? Don’t be so quick to answer. After all, we use the term regularly without ever stopping to think about its precise meaning. Is broadband high-speed Internet, advanced […]

Given their scarcity and value, orbital locations and the radiofrequency spectrum always have been a matter of contention among satellite market players. In the late 1990s, when, over the course […]

The WiMax sector’s overall efforts were rebuffed at the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference, but with some governments around the globe continuing to support WiMax and international mobile telecommunications (IMT) players […]

According to Andrea Maleter, technical director, Futron, “There is a fair amount of private equity money still going into (Latin America’s) satellite business. Latin American telecoms, in general, has seen […]

Even though the satellite sector was touted as recession-proof, many companies are glad to put a difficult year behind them. And while there is no guarantee that 2010 will be […]

Kanal 5 and Kanal 9 are two of the biggest commercial FTA TV channels in Sweden. Kanal 5, broadcast out of the United Kingdom, targets an audience between 15-44 years […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been contracted to build the Nimiq 6 satellite for Telesat, SS/L announced Dec. 30. The Ku-band satellite will be based on SS/L’s 1300 […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] Irdeto has linked-up with Humax to develop a secure HD set-top box for the Middle East region, the two companies announced Dec. 29.       The set-top box, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] U.S. Congress has extended government indemnification of U.S. commercial launches for another three years, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Dec. 24.     The indemnification regime, set […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] CBS and Walt Disney are considering a deal with Apple to join forces in order to create an iTunes subscription-based service for online video, The Wall Street […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the DirecTV-12 satellite aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Khrunichev Research and Production Center in Baikonur, ILS announced Dec. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] Although the number of households with antennas in the U.S. fell slightly in the last year, about 11 percent of U.S. households, or about 13 million homes, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] WorldSpace’s Indian operation will close down at the end of this year, the operator announced late last week.     WorldSpace said the potential buyer of much of […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Thales Alenia Space and Orbital Sciences won contracts to build a new geosynchronous communications satellite contract for OverHorizon, the companies announced Dec. 23.     Both Thales Alenia […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] ViaSat named Tom Moore president of its newly acquired WildBlue subsidiary, ViaSat announced Dec. 23.     His duties at Wildblue will include oversight of the construction and […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Satellite service provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has reached a legal settlement with mobile company Sybase 365 over patent infringement lawsuits filed by TCS against Mobile 365 in […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] The European Satellite Operators’ Association (ESOA) expressed approval of the European Union’s (EU) Telecoms Reform Package in a statement released Dec. 23.     The package, proposed by […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-09] Arinc and Vizada Americas have launched voice and data services using the Inmarsat I-4 satellite constellation, the companies announced Dec. 21.     The companies will provide Inmarsat […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-09] Com Dev International has been awarded a $7 million contract from an unidentified commercial customer to develop technology on a broadband communications satellite, the Ontario-based satellite company […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-09] ArabSat and NileSat have agreed to help the Turkish government launch an Arabic language television station as part of an initiative from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip […]