Author: Staff Writer

A recent partnership between Intelsat and a top Formula One racing team are using satellite technology to transmit and analyze mission-critical data during part of this year’s Formula One season...

By Maury Mechanick, White & Case About a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a new satellite-licensing regime. In a fairly bold stroke, the FCC implemented...

Intelsat reached a key agreement to let it tap the potentially lucrative U.K. broadband market. The company’s deal calls for it to forge a partnership with BT Broadcast Services (BTBS),...

Pay-TV operators across the Middle East believe the region could prove to be a hotbed for such services during the next few years. With more than 20 Arab nations inhabited...

Week of May 28-June 3, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol June 3 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.63 (6.9) (7.9) (34.3)...

Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Globecomm Systems [GCOM], a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, was awarded a contract valued at $14.7 million from the Ministry of Communication, Islamic Transitional State of...

Loral Skynet said SkyReach, the company’s Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled service that provides two-way broadband services for secure private networks or high-speed Internet access, now is commercially available throughout the Americas....

EMS SATCOM, a division of EMS Technologies [ELMG], today launched its Ship Security Alert System (SSAS). The system was designed to meet the demands of SOLAS (Safety of Life at...

Xantic hopes to make satellite broadband services easier to use by launching an application called Easy Accelerator, which it says optimises Internet and intranet usage by reducing the size of...

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK], a global satellite communications company in The Hague, The Netherlands, agreed to be acquired for $956 million in cash by affiliates of The Blackstone Group,...