Author: Staff Writer

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) said it is offering a comprehensive range of standard high-speed enterprise broadband service plans in North America. The Direcway Enterprise Service Plans include six primary service...

SES Americom conducted the last operations on the Satcom C1 satellite, safely de-orbiting the satellite more than 280 km beyond the geosynchronous orbital belt, the company announced May 2. The...

The DirecTV Group Inc. reported first quarter revenues of $3.15 billion, an increase of 26 percent from first quarter revenues in 2004.The company’s net loss dropped from $639 million to...

PolarSat Inc. named Regional Director Li Jiang head of the company’s Beijing Representative Office. “Mr. Jiang’s appointment, following so closely the award of a major VSAT contract to PolarSat by...

Loral Skynet has teamed with Global Crossing to provide a communications network to the British Council, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by the British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Loral Skynet...

Norsat International President and CEO Cameron Hunter has resigned, effective immediately. Hunter had been the CEO of Norsat since August 2003 and an officer of the company since 2002. No...

The Safety-Star system developed by Premier GPS has been approved for use on the Globalstar satellite telephone network, Globalstar said. Adding Safety-Star–which is used to monitor the status of workers–to...

WiFi Wireless Inc. and Planetel signed a multiyear agreement with an unnamed international satellite operator under which the technologies of the three companies will be merged to offer high-speed data...

ZTE Corp. has become the first Chinese company to receive a license to distribute Qualcomm Inc.‘s gpsOne positioning system, ZTE said. Under the licensing and distribution agreement, ZTE can sell...

The Federal Communications Commission April 29 adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that initiates new satellite broadcast carriage requirements to the noncontiguous United States. The NPRM requests comment on...