by Owen D. Kurtin Last time out, we started off looking at the series of upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs) by which last year’s private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite...
Panamsat de México received a contract from TV Azteca to distribute the company’s international channel to cable operators in Latin America and Europe, Panamsat said. Panamsat de México, a joint...
Echostar Communications Corp. has partnered with Sound Choice to offer a karaoke channel on Dish Network’s interactive lineup, Echostar said. The Karaoke Channel, developed by Sound Choice, allows viewers to...
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 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...
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...
Panamsat de México received a contract from TV Azteca to distribute the company’s international channel to cable operators in Latin America and Europe, Panamsat said. Panamsat de México, a joint...
Sirius Satellite Radio has raised its revenue and subscriber targets for 2005 as the company reported improved revenue and customer churn in the first quarter. Revenue for New York-based Sirius...
XM Satellite Radio added a record 541,140 net subscribers in its 2005 first quarter , a 68 percent increase over the 321,675 net subscriber additions recorded in the first quarter...
Royal Philips Electronics has unveiled its Nexperia One Chip Set-Top Box (STB) Engine for satellite STBs, the company announced. The single chip combines MPEG-2 video decoding, satellite channel decoding, a...