Author: Staff Writer

Globalstar announced Nov. 1 it would offer simplex, or one-way, data services to customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern part of South America via its...

KVH Industries Inc. unveiled Nov. 1 an embedded automotive Tracvision system intended to support volume original equipment manufacturing and special program vehicle applications. Using the same hybrid phased-array antenna technology...

DirecTV announced Nov. 1 the debut of CD USA, a weekly performance-based series. The hourly show, debuting Jan. 21, will feature a mix of music genres, including pop, indie, rock...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Nov. 1 that Space Communications Corp. (SCC) placed an order for a new communications satellite to be named Superbird 7. This is the first SCC satellite...

Subscriber gains helped Sirius Satellite Radio post revenue of $66.8 million in the third quarter 2005, a 250 percent jump over revenues of $19.1 million in third quarter 2004, the...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB has teamed up with Vodafone to launch Sky Mobile TV to deliver broadcast video services to Vodafone mobile phone customers. There will be two Sky...

By Gerry Oberst We wrote in our September column about efforts in Europe to reshape media rules and the various ways these efforts could affect the satellite industry. As we...

By Jason Bates After spending much of the 20th century behind the Iron Curtain, many Central and Eastern European countries are embracing their relatively new economic and political freedoms and...

By Peter J. Brown Satellites have always enjoyed an advantage over terrestrial alternatives when it comes to beaming one-way transmissions over vast distances. Broadcasting the same signal to any number...

By Owen D. Kurtin Earlier this year, this column devoted a four-part series to the earlier-than-anticipated exits of private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) companies into initial public...