Author: Mark Holmes

To read an extended version of this interview with Petra Mateos, please click here. When appointed chairwoman of Hispasat in 2004, Petra Mateos felt the company needed to have more...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-01-11] Deutsche Telekom (DT) has signed a deal with SES Astra to combine Astra`s satellite free-TV offer, including HD Plus, with its IPTV product Entertain Sat, DT...

[Satellite News 03-01-11] About 42 percent of the 37 million IP-enabled, hybrid set-top boxes shipped worldwide in 2010 were satellite-enabled, according to a Feb. 28 report from IMS Research.    ...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-28-11] Sky Deutschland added more than 130,000 subscribers in its 2010 fourth quarter to end the year with nearly 2.7 million subscribers in Germany and Austria, the...

[Satellite News 02-28-11] TAM Airlines, which operates direct flights to 45 cities in Brazil and 18 cities in South America, the United States and Europe, has beefed up its connectivity...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-25-11] Australian satellite pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar reported disappointing subscriber growth in 2010 due to the challenging market environment created by the economic recession, the companies...

[Satellite News 02-24-11] In 2009, Showtime Arabia and Orbit merged and created a join platform, OSN, now the dominant pay-TV service in the Middle East.     Under the direction of...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-23-11] The Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) has contracted Astrium Services to deliver AirPatrol airborne satcom terminals to support Canada’s Radar and Imaging for the Land/Littoral...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-21-11] Inmarsat expects to sign the launch contract for its Inmarsat-5 constellation fleet of three Ka-band satellites later this year to support the launch of its Global...

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) signed a deal with Spacecom to provide Ku-band capacity on the ABS-7 satellite, the satellite operator confirmed Feb. 21.     SpaceCom plans to...