Author: Staff Writer

Russian channels RTR-Planeta and Planeta Sport have been added to Globecast WorldTV U.S. broadcasting lineup, Globecast announced. RTR-Planeta offers prime time news, made-for-television and feature films, documentaries, and cultural programming....

Americom Government Services (AGS), a subsidiary of SES Americom, announced Oct. 5 it received a five-year contract to support the Center For Disease Control and Prevention‘s (CDC) Global Disease Detection...

Eutelsat announced Oct. 7 that Poverkhnost Satellite Communications would broadcast the first direct-to-home pay TV platform in the Ukraine using Eutelsat’s W4 satellite. The W4 satellite, located at 36 degrees...

Talkswitch, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of telephone systems for small and multi-location businesses, announced Oct. 5 that it has teamed with Ramtelecom to provide a satellite-based...

Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) announced Oct. 7 that it would partner with LogicaCMG for a project intended to drive development of new mobile location technology and applications for the...

Caprock Communications announced Oct. 4 it opened of a new operations center in Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico. The facility will serve as a regional sales office and technical support center...

Satellite equipment supplier Newtec won a contract to provide Eurovision, the operational service of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with a series of DVB-S2 modulators. The deal will allow Eurovision...

Shipping company Maersk Sealand completed a field evaluation of Inmarsat‘s Fleet F77 128 kilobits per second services, Inmarsat announced. “Throughout the trial we found the 128 kbps Fleet F77 service...

Globalstar LLC announced Oct. 6 the development of an emergency management communications system that combines a satellite backhaul network and a miniaturized cellular system. The emergency management system allows first...

Thrane & Thrane said Oct. 5 the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the company a five-year schedule contract through which government agencies can procure and deploy Thrane & Thrane’s...