Author: Staff Writer

PreCash Inc. formed a partnership with EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] that will enable participating PreCash locations to begin processing Dish Network payments using the Viewer’s Instant Payment (VIP) Card from...

BrightStar Internet Inc. is offering one-way satellite Internet services to the outlying areas of Central Florida. Residents may use their telephone connections to send requests for data from the Internet,...

AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson believes market conditions are likely to remain difficult for satellite operators in Asia, and an upsurge in fortunes could be more than a year away. He...

Quantum Connections launched its satellite-based, high-speed Internet access to customers in southern Michigan and in northern Indiana. Subscribers to the product, Q- Sat, can surf the net at speeds as...

Officials from M/A-Com, a business unit of Tyco Electronics Ltd. [TYC], said Ford Motor Co. [F] selected M/A-Com to provide satellite radio antennas for a variety of Ford’s vehicle lines....

Armand Mancini, executive vice president and CFO at ORBIMAGE,left the company to “pursue other interests.” The company is conducting an executive search to find his replacement. Mancini was a co-founder...

Officials from Comtech EF Data Corp., a subsidiary of Comtech Communications Corp. [CMTL], today said the company received a $1.2 million order from an unnamed cellular service provider in Southeast...

EchoStar Communications [DISH] CEO Charles Ergen is asking Congress to rethink provisions in the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 (SHVERA) aimed at its Dish Network direct-to-home...

Starting today, Verizon Communications [VZ] customers will have the option to drop their local cable television service in favor of DirecTV direct-to- home satellite television service. Verizon said customers choosing...

EchoStar Communications [DISH] officials today said the Dish network direct-to-home satellite television service now will offer local channels to subscribers in Sioux City, Iowa, and in Wausau-Rhinelander, Wis. The channels...