Mark Holmes

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-29-11] Gilat Satellite Networks signed its second Latin America deal of 2011, winning a $14.5 million broadband contract with Peru’s Agency for Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversion) […]

[Satellite News 03-30-11] Latin America is projected to be the fastest growing television market through the next few years, according to an IMS Research report released March 30.     IMS […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-29-11] Eutelsat’s broadband subsidiary Skylogic signed an initial five-year contract worth 3 million euros ($4.22 million) with SkyDSL to market its Tooway broadband service provided by Ka-Sat, […]

One of the closing panels  of SATELLITE 2011 focused on a highly discussed topic in terms of the future of the satellite sector — broadband. The panel “Satellite Broadband: Ready […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-28-11] AsiaSat reported a 25 percent increase in its full-year 2010 revenues at $187.31 million compared with its prior year results. The improved performance drove $89.16 million […]

[Satellite News 03-25-11] Speaking at the IP & TV World Forum in London, DirecTV Senior Vice President of Engineering Henry Derovanessian talked of the operator’s strategy to leverage its recently […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-25-11] Amino Communications is shopping for partnership deals with satellite pay-TV providers to deploy its Over-The-Top (OTT) television box Freedom Jump, Amino CEO Andrew Burke told Satellite […]

[Satellite News 03-23-11] Gilat Satellite Networks’ acquisitions of Raysat Antenna Systems and Wavestream were key elements of the company’s strategy to beef up its overall capabilities and focus on defense […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-23-11] DirecTV signed a contract with NDS to develop addressable advertising insertion technology and enhanced audience measurement capabilities for the pay-TV operator’s platform, DirecTV announced March 22. […]

[Satellite News 03-21-11] Speaking on a broadband panel at the SATELLITE 2011 conference, satellite executives debated the impact of the industry’s response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that […]

As SATELLITE 2011 celebrates its 30th anniversary, the CEOs of the largest FSS operators, Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES and Telesat, discussed the challenges for the sector as they look to stay […]

Issues such as a lack of skilled RF engineers, interference as well as better network management tools were key topics discussed at the CTO technology breakfast at SATELLITE 2011. With […]

Edward Horowitz, Director, U.S. Space, LLC says the satellite sector must adapt to the changing needs of Generation X and Generation Y if it is to stay relevant.    In […]

There is a great deal of excitement in the satellite sector, set-up by a series of large satellite orders, launch contracts, financing deals and acquisitions that have taken place during […]

[Satellite News 03-15-11] An RF engineer shortage has hampered the satellite industry’s efforts to deal with interference and provide better network management tools, according to a panel of CTOs speaking […]

[Satellite News 03-15-11] The satellite sector must adapt to the changing needs of Generation X and Generation Y if it is to stay relevant, U.S. Space Director Edward Horowitz said […]

The satellite industry remains popular among technology/media analysts at investment banks, and satellite stocks in Europe and North America remain popular with analysts.     Chris Quilty, a satellite equity analyst […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-10-11] Technology vendor NDS is looking to tap into the potential of the over-the-top (OTT) television market by launching its NDS Service Delivery Platform – a fully […]

[Satellite News 03-10-11] Noorsat, one of the MENA region’s first fully privately owned satellite service providers, could look to launch its own satellite in the near future, Noorsat CEO Omar […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-08-11] Sea Launch has entered into a framework agreement with SES to provide the satellite operator with detailed technical information regarding its launch vehicle system on a […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-08-11] Inmarsat saw its 2010 full-year revenues increase 13 percent to $1.17 billion, with operating profits jumping 70 percent to reach $333.5 million, the company announced in […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-07-11] Romanian telco RomTelecom has agreed to acquire DTH operator Boom TV in a deal that represents a significant consolidation of the Romanian DTH market, RomTelecom announced […]

[Satellite News 03-07-11] Satellite telecommunications service provider SpeedCast has seen solid growth in recent years and expects this trend to continue in 2011 as it begins an initiative to expand […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-04-11] SES Astra’s latest Astra2Connect subdistribution service launch in Germany, unveiled March 2, will lower the operator’s hardware and installation costs and allow the company to provide […]

[Satellite News 03-04-11] SES World Skies recently commissioned the SES 8 satellite to bring more capacity to DTH markets in Asia as part of its plan to expand its presence […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-03-11] Inmarsat has selected Cobham as its maritime satellite terminal launch partner to support Inmarsat’s upcoming Global Xpress service, the mobile operator announced March 2.     Inmarsat […]

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 […]