Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-10] Oil and gas industry communications systems provider RigNet closed its initial public offering of 5 million shares at an initial price of $12.00 per share, the company...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-20-10] PakSat is optimistic that the DTH market in Pakistan will see some movement in 2011, as the operator gets ready to launch its Paksat-1R satellite. However,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] DirecTV Latin America has completed a $604.8 million cash for stock transaction with Globo, which increases DirecTV’s ownership of Sky Brasil to about 93 percent, the pay-TV...

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] Teleport Access Services (TAS), a fixed satellite services provider in Taiwan, awarded a contract to Irdeto to upgrade TAS’s conditional access system, Irdeto announced Dec. 17.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] U.K. broadband satellite operator Avanti Communications signed a five-year contract with Filiago in Germany to provide broadband services via the Hylas 1 satellite, Avanti announced Dec. 17....

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-10] Rogers Corp. introduced its RT/duroid 6035HTC high-thermal-conductivity laminate material engineered for low loss in high-power circuits, the developer announced Dec. 17.     The composite material is designed...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-17-10] Iridium Communications expects it will achieve substantial subscriber, service and equipment revenue growth in 2011 due to favorable competitive market dynamics and the company’s strong cash...

[Satellite TODAY 12-17-10] SES received a $171.5 million loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank to build and insure the QuetzSat telecommunications satellite, according to documents the operator released Dec. 14....

[Satellite TODAY 12-17-10] Dish Network has rolled out its 3-D Cinema On-Demand offering, giving customers access to a variety of 3-D movies, the U.S. pay-TV provider announced Dec. 16.    ...

[Satellite News 12-17-10] SES Astra signed deals with Ukrainian state enterprise Ukrkosmos and Central European Media Enterprises (CME) that the satellite operator hopes will ramp up its presence in Ukraine,...