Author: Mark Holmes

[Satellite News – 5-9-08] U.K. telecommunications giant BT Vision has perhaps one of the hardest tasks of any major operator in Europe in terms of penetrating the TV market.    ...

[Satellite News – 5-8-08] Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telecommunications companies, wants to expand its business and is setting its sights on India’s burgeoning satellite pay-TV market.     Bharti...

[Satellite News – 5-5-08] Israeli satellite pay-TV operator Yes may only have 550,000 subscribers, but it is determined to be one of the most innovative pay-TV operators in terms of...

[Satellite News – 5-2-08] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is targeting a strong performance in its core markets in Europe and Latin America throughout the next year, with the 2009 launch...

Astrium Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium, offers a one-stop shop in the satellite services market, targeting secure communications, Earth observation services and navigation services. The company has posted...

[Satellite News – 5-1-08] Media Partners Asia believes the direct-to-home (DTH) market in Asia will grow to around 44 million customers throughout the region by 2012.     Satellite pay-TV services...

Consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. It always has been a buzzword in the satellite industry, but after an intense round of activity that produced some significant transactions among satellite operators, are other...

[Satellite News – 4-25-08] Arqiva is expanding into the international high-definition (HD) market with launches of a new international platform for occasional use broadcasting as well as a new MPEG-4...

[Satellite News – 4-23-08] Bell Canada, which owns and runs Canada’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) operator, Bell ExpressVu, is pushing satellite technology as a solution to help the country become fully...

[Satellite News – 4-21-08] The European Space Agency (ESA) is prepared to take the lead in Earth observation after awarding a pair of satellites for the Global Monitoring for Environment...