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by Amanda L. Kazdoy Satellite industry experts tend to agree that Africa is in dire need of basic telecommunications services, particularly in rural communities. As developing regions are becoming more […]

by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger In the satellite universe, 1999 would probably be considered the year of the dish. As a result of consolidation and a clearing of the […]

by Theresa Foley Latin America remains one of the world’s hottest satellite markets despite economic problems in two of the largest nations, Brazil and Argentina, that have put the brakes […]

by James Careless This year has been better than 1998 for the Asia-Pacific satellite community, but not by much. On the technical side, it’s been a mixed bag: Asiasat 3S […]

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. A vast number of regulatory decisions have affected the satellite industry since its inception. Many of these regulations were made in the past ten years. […]

by Theresa Foley Before year’s end, several satellite service providers will be carrying one Gbps worth of Internet traffic each as the demand for satellite delivery of Internet services continues. […]

by Scott Chase Ask Arthur C. Clarke, entrepreneur, inventor, adventurer and, for many, the "father" of communications via satellite, what futures he sees for mankind in the new century, and […]

By Cynthia Boeke The past year has been an eventful one, notable for what happened, as well as for what failed to materialize. In the latter category, two multibillion-dollar mobile […]

by Robustiano Fernandez Europe is a study in contrasts. To many overseas observers, it presents an increasingly unified and sophisticated front, and in many respects Europe is a united, if […]

by James Careless There’s likely no satellite region more complex and challenging to comprehend than the Middle East. At the heart of the situation is, of course, the ongoing Israeli/Arab […]

The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia said on November 26 that it was preparing to shut down a Bosnian Croat television station if negotiations with the body overseeing the […]

Middle East broadcaster ART may abandon the pay-TV business… Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has confirmed to Interspace that it may quit pay-TV. While no decision has […]

Viasat Broadcasating, radio and publishing are the top performing business areas in Modern Times Group’s third quarter results, just released. Net sales across the Swedish-based company increased from SKr2,613 million […]

Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. Sima-yeh Moghavemat, the Iranian opposition TV channel that is licensed by the ITC in the UK, […]

Italy’s Communications Ministry has postponed a key decision on whether MTV Italia can retain the free-to-air terrestrial broadcasting licence that currently gives it access to millions of Italian TV homes. […]

Globalstar successfully launched an additional four LEO satellites on November 22 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, bringing the total number of Globalstar satellites now in space to 48 and […]

Italian electricity utility Enel has received the necessary go-ahead from the EU to take a 30 per cent in Canal Plus-led digital platform Telepiu, but is facing criticism from leading […]

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for […]

Youth channel Rapture has joined the Sky Digital line up on Astra, increasing its carriage by a third to approximately 5.7 million homes including analogue satellite and cable. Rapture, owned […]

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new […]

Telenor is upgrading its presence in the UK with a move to new offices that will also include its own uplink facilities. The new offices in Bernard Street, central London, […]

Iran is to set up a space organisation with either Chinese or Indian help, according the deputy post, telegraph and telephone minister, Mehdi Tabeshian, speaking at the second international conference […]

Two channels for France specialising in tourism, but with very different approaches, are on the launch pad. VTV International, based in Madrid, has launched Tele Vacances in France. The channel […]

A new satellite market study (Handbook of Satellite Services in Europe, Microcom Systems Pounds 285) suggests the recent problems affecting Iridium and ICO Global Communications will have a short-term effect […]

Regional Czech satellite TV station Galaxie started transmissions on November 18 on satellite and cable according to local reports. It has also been reported that channel could be a target […]

The proposed merger between Carlton Communications and United News & Media (UN&M) – besides managing to infuriate both BSkyB and Granada – could bring together two UK broadcasters with a […]

The Adam Faith-backed Money Channel, due on air in February, reported losses for its first half-year Pounds 638,000 for the six months to September 30, in line with company expectations. […]

Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu is facing major problems in supplying its new subscribers with the Goldbox receivers needed to receive its digital bouquet. In order to resolve the problem, Telepiu […]

Japan’s ministry of transport lost its multi-functional Transport Satellite on November 15 when its H-II launcher suffered a first stage shut-down four minutes after lift-off. The 2.9 tonne MTSat-1 was […]

Wide differences have emerged in the take-up of digital television between different social segments, according to the University of Leeds’s Centre for Future Communications. Research director Michael Svennevig told a […]