Author: Staff Writer

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB announced a number of deals with suppliers as it gets set to launch HDTV (High Definition Television) services in the United Kingdom and Ireland in...

Orbital Recovery Ltd. said its ConeXpress Orbital Life Extension Vehicle (CX-OLEV) successfully passed its baseline design review milestone, clearing the way for space tug to be formally offered to customers...

Although the decision to shut down Cablevision‘s Rainbow DBS operations, which did business under the Voom brand name, was made public earlier this month, work on a $740 million contract...

According to a new report issued by Forrester Research Inc., inhabitants of 20.1 million households will listen to satellite radio by the end of the decade. In its report, “The...

Asia Pulse reported April 14 that SK Teletech Co., the handset-developing arm of SK Telecom Co., said its new IMB-1000 cell phone, which is capable of receiving satellite television broadcasts,...

EchoStar Communications Corp. announced a special offer to New York Mets fans in the New York tri-state area and parts of Pennsylvania who otherwise are not able to watch the...

Motorola Inc. and WorldGate Communications Inc. claim they have conducted the first true-to-life videophone call over satellite broadband connections using the Motorola Ojo personal videophone. The phone call originated from...

Intelsat selected Convergent Media Systems as a provider of worldwide distribution services for its business TV offering. Intelsat’s global fiber and satellite network will be used to transmit live and...

Iridium Satellite LLC said its total number of subscribers grew 19 percent and revenues grew 26 percent during the first quarter of 2005, compared to the totals reported during the...

Hypothetical talk of mergers between Intelsat and New Skies Satellites BV, as well as Inmarsat and ICO, dominated a U.S. Congressional hearing, held April 14, reviewing the status of the...