Connectivity

[Satellite Today – 2-18-08] RRSat Global Communications Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire a teleport located in Pennsylvania, RRSat’s first U.S. acquisition, the company announced Feb. 14.     As […]

[Satellite Today – 2-15-08] Information technology testing organization Allion will use TeleCommunication Systems Inc.‘s Xypoint Secure User Plane for Location (SUPL) server to deliver Location-Based Services to Asia-Pacific customers, TCS […]

[Satellite Today – 2-15-08] Viasat Broadcasting has seen its satellite pay-TV subscriber base fall in the Nordic region. This was one of the highlights of its full year and fourth […]

[Satellite Today – 2-15-08] Arqiva has stepped up its plans in the High Definition (HD) arena. Its satellite media solutions division has installed a new HD ready television playout suite, […]

[Satellite News – 2-14-08] With the news that the German pay-TV operator Premiere‘s encryption system has been compromised, the issue of piracy in the pay-TV arena has come back into […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Premiere closed 2007 with more than 3.6 million pay-TV subscribers, adding more than 240,000 subscribers, the company announced Feb. 14.     Revenues fell from 1.1 billion […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Canal Digital, the Nordic DTH platform owned by Telenor, ended 2007 with 932,000 subscribers. This was one of the highlights of Telenor’s full-year and fourth quarter […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] DirecTV Group Inc. increased revenues in the fourth quarter 17 percent, the company announced Feb. 13.     Revenues for the quarter ending Dec. 31 increased 17 […]

[Satellite News – 2-13-08] Echostar Corp., Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund 1 Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund LP (collectively, Harbinger) and other investors have agreed to invest […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Microspace Communications Corp. (Microspace), has been selected by Instant Access Media to deliver i-am TV, an out-of-home digital entertainment network, to the largest neighborhood and sports […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] ICO Global Communications Ltd. has selected Expway’s FastESG for the alpha trial of its ICO mim service, Expway announced Feb. 12.     ICO mim (mobile interactive […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] Redknee Solutions Inc. will provide a turnkey billing system to Inmarsat PLC, the satellite operator announced Feb. 11.     Under the first phase of the agreement, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] Hughes Network Systems LLC signed a contract with Russian broadband provider IPNet to implement a new HX system teleport in Moscow, Hughes announced Feb. 12.     […]

[Satellite News – 2-12-08] OpenTV, the U.S. based technology vendor, hopes the structural changes made in 2007 will better position the company in 2008.     The supplier of middleware and […]

[Satellite Today – 2-11-08] Thales Alenia Space has delivered SIRAL-2, the synthetic aperture interferometric radar altimeter for the CryoSat-2 mission, to prime contractor EADS Astrium, Thales announced Feb. 11.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-11-08] Eutelsat and Nissan Europe have donated a satellite communications-equipped four-wheel drive vehicle to Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), the relief organization announced Feb. 8. The equipment will […]

[Satellite Today – 2-11-08] A Proton Breeze M carrying the Thor 5 satellite has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, International Launch Services (ILS) announced Feb. 11.     […]

[Satellite News – 2-8-08] SatLink Communications, which launched a new MCPC (multi channel per carrier) platform on Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite Feb. 4, is hoping to deal with generate stronger revenues […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Digital+, a Spanish direct-to-home platform, has launched its first high-definition (HD) channel on satellite, operators SES Astra announced Feb. 8.     Canal+ HD, is being broadcast […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Eutelsat has signed a deal with one of Germany’s biggest cable operators for a new digital platform in Germany, the satellite operator announced Feb. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] KVH Industries Inc. posted revenues of $19.7 million in its 2007 fourth quarter, an increase of 13 percent of the same period a year ago, the […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] EchoStar Corp. is among the companies that have agreed to invest $300 million into TerreStar Corp. to help fund the manufacturing and launch of TerreStar’s satellites, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Satellite’s prospects for playing a key role in the mobile TV market in Europe will be boosted by a high-profile demonstration at the Mobile World Congress […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Israel’s Aerophone Ltd. has developed a communications system that will allow airline passengers to make mobile telephone calls from aircraft using satellite links, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded a patent that protects technologies relating to the reduction of interference, the company announced Feb. 6.      U.S. Patent […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] The wholesale average selling price of GPS-enabled handsets will fall under $200 by 2010, according to a new report by ABI Research.     Currently, most handsets […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Iridium Satellite has upgraded the satellite phones used by Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station, the company announced Feb. 7.     Russian authorities are replacing […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable, has signed a contract with SES Americom to use 29 C-band transponders in the HD-Prime satellite network, […]