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ViaSat Inc. [VSAT] officials today said the company is expanding its Immeon shared-hub services to all Haverty Furniture Co. [HVT] locations under a new four-year agreement. Immeon will provide 768...

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] officials today said the company has signed an exclusive agreement with BBC America to broadcast the BBC drama “EastEnders” on its Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television...

Officials from The DirecTV Group [DTV] said today that their DirecTV satellite television unit tied with rival satellite TV service EchoStar Communications [DISH] in earning a customer satisfaction rating of...

SES Astra has signed a deal with Ya.com Internet Factory, owned by T-Online, to launch a new satellite broadband service in Spain called Yacom Satélite. The service is aimed at...

Kingston Inmedia, a leading provider of broadband satellite services, changed its name to Inmedia Communications, and it will trade as Inmedia. The new identify stems from a leveraged buyout of...

DirecTV Inc., a unit of The DirecTV Group [DTV], today said the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) and DirecTV have agreed to end NRTC’s exclusive DirecTV service distribution contract, effective...

Globalstar LLC said its service quality in the Caribbean region has been “dramatically improved,” following the installation of a fourth antenna at its regional gateway at Las Palmas, Puerto Rico....

Intelsat officials today said BT Broadcast Services launched its satellite broadband service using the Intelsat system. The service is targeted to small and medium businesses as well as small office/home...

LONG BEACH, Calif.–The three sectors of the aerospace industry–commercial, civil space and military space–need to work together to lower expenses and exploit technological synergies, said Gen. Eugene Tattini [Ret.], deputy...

Globecomm Systems [GCOM] has entered the ethnic-programming video business by launching a direct-to-home video platform into Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The platform offers a full range of...