Mark Holmes

[Satellite News – 2-19-08] The satellite industry is very much a global industry. In 2007, there were numerous interesting developments around the world. In Africa, Nigcomsat launched a satellite. In […]

[Satellite News – 2-19-08] From satellite broadband to consolidation within the FSS industry, there are many hot topics within the satellite industry. The Satellite 2008 Show Daily spoke to Andrea […]

[Satellite News – 2-19-08] In 2007, there were some interesting financial dynamics within the satellite industry. BC Partners struck a deal to acquire Intelsat. Abertis, a Spanish infrastructure company, was […]

[Satellite News – 2-19-08] Satellite pay-TV has peaked in terms of subscribers in the Nordic region, according to Modern Times Group (MTG) CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht. MTG owns Viasat Broadcasting, which […]

[Satellite News – 2-14-08] With the news that the German pay-TV operator Premiere‘s encryption system has been compromised, the issue of piracy in the pay-TV arena has come back into […]

[Satellite News – 2-12-08] OpenTV, the U.S. based technology vendor, hopes the structural changes made in 2007 will better position the company in 2008.     The supplier of middleware and […]

[Satellite News – 2-11-08] Israeli satellite operator Spacecom rejected a takeover bid by SES Global, Motty Slomovitz, Spacecom’s vice president of sales & marketing, North America, told Satellite News.     […]

[Satellite News – 2-8-08] SatLink Communications, which launched a new MCPC (multi channel per carrier) platform on Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite Feb. 4, is hoping to deal with generate stronger revenues […]

[Satellite News 2-4-08] Verizon has surpassed 1 million customer barrier for its Fios IPTV service in the United States ramping up the pressure on its satellite and cable competitors.     […]

[Satellite News – 2-1-08] Star One hopes to become more of a force in the Latin America region with the launch of a pair of new satellites, Gustavo Silbert, the […]

For a while, the satellite industry’s battle to retain C-band spectrum seemed to be a losing proposition, as well-financed telecommunications players were lobbying hard to gain access to the bandwidth. […]

[Satellite News – 1-30-08] France Telecom (FT) is set to be the first major telco in Europe to launch satellite-based television services alongside an IPTV service. A report, originally in […]

[Satellite News – 1-25-08] The acquisition of Telesat Canada by Loral Space and Communications, completed in October, instantly created the fourth largest fixed satellite services operator in the world. The […]

[Satellite News – 1-24-08] SES Global, the world’s second largest communications satellite operator, has made a bid to acquire Israel’s Space-Communication Ltd. (Spacecom), both SES and Spacecom have confirmed to […]

[Satellite News – 1-22-08] Irdeto Access believes Asia will be a strong market for its conditional access and middleware services. Such is its determination to drive revenues from Asia, CEO […]

[Satellite News – 1-18-08] DirecTV, which has nearly 17 million subscribers to its satellite broadband service, hopes to improve that number greatly within the next few months as the company’s […]

[Satellite News 1-15-07] Eutelsat’s satellite broadband plans have gained momentum last week, as the company announced plans to procure a dedicated Ka-band satellite in conjunction with ViaSat Inc., which is […]

[Satellite News – 1-11-08] The Middle East has seen many interesting satellite projects unveiled in the past year, and while communications satellites dominate the headlines, a technology project could be […]

[Satellite News – 1-8-08] Investment firm Mountain Super Angel is confident that it can turn around the SkyDSL satellite broadband business, which the current owner, Teles, considered shutting down.     […]

[Satellite News – 1-4-08] The Regional African Satellite Communications Organization (Rascom) is facing the prospect that its Rascom-QAF1 satellite will have a much shorter commercial lifetime than expected,     The […]

Digital TV solutions company Tandberg Television found itself as the center of attention in 2007 as a variety of suitors stepped up to the plate to try and acquire Tandberg. […]

With cable and IPTV players putting more pressure on satellite pay-TV providers around the globe, the satellite operators are looking to move beyond their traditional business boundaries. Direct-to- home (DTH) […]

[12-26-07 – Satellite News] From changes of ownership to new operators, the fixed satellite services sector landscape continued to undergo significant changes throughout 2007. Intelsat and SES Global remain the […]

[12-19-07 – Satellite News] French broadcaster AB Groupe has launched a new satellite pay-TV platform, BIS, hoping to exploit the demand for low-cost pay-TV in France.     The basic package […]

[12-17-07 – Satellite News] Saab, the Swedish industrial company, is likely to exit the space industry early next year. The company, which less than two years ago acquired Ericsson‘s 40 […]

[12-14-07 – Satellite News] Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company (Thuraya) now hopes to see its Thuraya-3 satellite launched before the end of January. The launch of the satellite had been scheduled […]

[12-13-07 – Satellite News] Satellite players targeting the United Kingdom likely will get the opportunity to participate in a variety of spectrum auctions in 2008, as the U.K. communications regulator […]

[12-10-07 – Satellite News] Vision TV will launch commercial direct-to-home (DTH) services in Ukraine in the first quarter of 2008, as it looks to tap into one of Eastern Europe’s […]

 [12-07-07 – Satellite News] While most of the satellite industry focused on C-band at the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-07), a pair of companies planning to launch satellite radio services in […]

[12-05-07 – Satellite News] While looking to tap more into IPTV markets, Tandberg Television still will derive the majority of its revenues from the satellite space, Tandberg Television CEO Eric […]