Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] Thailand’s national regulatory board has awarded Thaicom a license that will allow the private satellite operator to start selling bandwidth for its Thaicom 7 satellite after it...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] U.K.-based satellite data communications services provider Avanti Communications will launch its second satellite, Hylas 2, on Aug. 2, the company announced June 27.    Arianespace will send...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] Serbia Broadband (SBB) has signed a contract with Eutelsat Communications’ Skylogic affiliate to distribute the operator’s Tooway satellite broadband service in six Balkan countries, Eutelsat announced June...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] Harris CapRock has signed a four-year renewal contract with drilling contractor Brasdril to continue providing turnkey, VSAT communications to 13 of its semisubmersibles and drill ships, located...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] U.S. satellite pay-TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network have received requests from the U.S. Justice Department about pricing contracts with broadcasters, according to a Bloomberg report published...

[Satellite News 06-28-12] Eutelsat has certainly been in the news with announcements late last week that China Investment Corp. (CIC) had reached agreement to buy a 7 percent stake in...

[Satellite TODAY 06-27-12] The south solar array on the Intelsat-19 satellite has deployed after nearly a month of delay following its May 31 launch on a Sea Launch Zenit rocket....

[Satellite TODAY 06-27-12] Pendrell Corp. subsidiary ICO Global Communications has withdrawn its petition for review to the California Supreme Court in connection with its litigation against Boeing and its subsidiaries,...

[Satellite TODAY 06-27-12] Hughes Network Systems was selected by Ecuadorian service provider Telconet to provide an HX System and broadband satellite terminals for the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Society...

[Satellite News 06-27-12] The 49 commercial satellite production programs and 419 individual communications satellites produced between 2012 and 2022 will be worth a combined $52.7 billion, according to a Forecast...