Connectivity

DirecTV and EchoStar jostled for attention and headlines throughout the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, as the two direct-to-home (DTH) providers unveiled a variety of new […]

Inspired as a response to rumors of a potential merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, law students at George Washington University have created a consumer advocacy group […]

Norsat International Inc. has issued 1 million common shares of stock and nearly 533,000 non-transferable common share purchase warrants in connection with its Employee Share Ownership Plan that was unveiled […]

Al Majd Satellite TV, an Arabic entertainment and news channel, has surpassed 200,000 subscribers, the company announced Jan. 15. The three-year-old channel, based at Dubai Media City, serves households primarily […]

Camping World will sell and service King Controls’  new King-Dome line of high definition-ready automatic and in-motion satellite television antennas, King Controls announced Jan. 15. King Controls is a Bloomington, […]

Ondas Media, a European satellite media company, has signed a deal with Dutch broadcaster Talpa Radio B.V as Ondas looks to build its satellite radio business in Europe. Talpa Radio […]

Virgin America will offer EchoStar Communications Corp.’s Dish Network on all flights, the airline announced Jan. 12. Pending government approval, the airline hopes to introduce domestic service this spring. The […]

RAMTelecom Inc. and SkyPort International Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to serve the North American market, the companies announced Jan. 10. SkyPort’s Houston-based network operations center and RamTelecom’s Ottawa-based […]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will provide a data reception and transmission subsystem that will be used in an advanced solution for two Yamal-300 satellites for Russian operator Gascom. […]

Set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology named Stuart Hall as its new CFO. Hall will join Pace in April, succeeding David Brocksom. Damien Wilkinson, Pace’s group financial controller, will head […]

Intelsat Ltd. plans to offer about $600 million of senior notes due 2015, the company announced Jan. 8. The net proceeds will be used, along with cash on hand, to […]

BCE, LORL The Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) businesses of Loral Space & Communications Inc. and Telesat Canada will be combined under a new Canadian company that will become the fourth […]

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced […]

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced […]

With demand for satellite services growing, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. would like to see better performance from its Spacenet Inc. services group. To accomplish this, Gilat has rebuilt Spacenet’s executive […]

The resurgence of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS), an industry and Wall Street pariah after the bankruptcies of Iridium, Globalstar and ICO in the late 1990s, was one of the major […]

The consumer love affair with high definition (HD) shows no signs of slowing, and even looks to be picking up heading into 2007. With the price of HD-capable TV sets […]

To compete in the evolving communications market, satellite operators must provide faster, more reliable and more advanced services. One of the methods for meeting this need is the flexible satellite, […]

While satellite traditionally has enjoyed a virtual monopoly in rural markets, operators are finding more terrestrial competitors entering these growing regions. The small towns of Fairfield, Mont., Bridgeport, W.Va., and […]

ShifTV Inc., an Internet broadcaster of ethnic and niche programming, announced Dec. 20 an exclusive IPTV agreement with Sky Angel, a U.S.-based direct-to-home satellite broadcaster of Christian and family-oriented programming […]

Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture the W7 satellite for Eutelsat Communications, the two companies announced Dec. 21. The spacecraft, scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2009, will be […]

XM Satellite Radio announced Dec. 19 that Joan Lordi Amble has joined the company’s board of directors. Amble serves as executive vice president and corporate comptroller for American Express Co.

The first satellite in Germany’s SAR-Lupe system was placed into orbit Dec. 19 by a Russian Cosmos 3M booster, satellite prime contractor OHB-System announced. The system of five identical satellites, […]

Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Audi Canada separately announced that Sirius Satellite Radio receivers will be delivered as factory-standard features in nearly all 2007 Ford, Lincoln and Audi vehicles […]

David Stone, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has been named to the board of directors of SkyPort International Inc., the company announced […]

Australia Network, the Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s international TV channel, has acquired additional capacity from Intelsat under a renewal of its multiyear contract, the Fixed Satellite Services announced Dec. 19. Australia […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. expects to raise $36.8 million in an offering of 7 million shares of stock, the company announced Dec. 19. The company will sell up to 4.7 […]

AsiaSat announced Dec. 19 a new capacity deal with Afghan broadcaster Shamshad TV. The broadcaster will lease C-band capacity on AsiaSat 2 to distribute programming to broadcast networks across Afghanistan […]

Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc. received an order from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with expanded commercial satellite capabilities, the company reported Dec. […]

XM Satellite Radio has completed its new two-satellite system after XM-4 was handed over to the satellite radio operator by Boeing Co., the companies announced. XM-4 was placed into orbit […]