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Dacom Corp., an independent gateway operator for Globalstar LLC, plans to offer simplex, or one-way, data services to Globalstar customers in parts of Asia, Globalstar announced Jan. 26. New hardware...

Pan-European satellite broadband provider Aramiska has turned off its service, allegedly giving customers barely seven hours notice that their Internet access was ending. In a Jan. 27 announcement on its...

If you hear rumors that Echostar Communications Corp. is unhappy about offering a package of channels that are considered family friendly, ignore them. In truth, making Congress happy by providing...

Globalstar LLC will use its planned system of terrestrial repeaters to boost the availability of its Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) in urban areas and within buildings, but the company also...

Iridium Satellite is supplying mobile satellite phone systems for a group of amateur ham radio operators preparing for an Antarctic expedition in February. The two-week DXpedition is intended to establish...

Eutelsat ended 2005 in hectic fashion, closing the saga of its efforts to go public with a successful initial public offering (IPO) Dec. 2 after an earlier false start. With...

Analyst Bullish On Satellite Radio Stocks Wall Street analyst Bear Stearns & Co. placed an "outperform" rating on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Looking back at Howard...

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) named Joslyn Read the organization chairwoman for 2006, SIA announced. Read, assistant vice president for regulatory affairs at Hughes Network Systems, replaces Tony Trujillo, senior...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received a contract from Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa to develop technology that extracts information about moving objects from satellite radar imagery, MDA announced...

Intelsat announced Jan. 26 that Globecast WorldTV renewed its contract for the use of multiple transponders aboard the Intelsat-Americas 5 (IA-5) satellite. The contract will support growth of Globecast’s international...