Author: Staff Writer

New Skies, Telenor Link Up for Pacific Ocean Coverage

New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK], a Netherlands-based satellite communications company, has signed a 10-year agreement with Telenor Satellite Services, a Norway-based provider of satellite communications services, for Pacific Ocean region...

PanAmSat Notches Profitable Year

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] Tuesday reported positive fourth quarter and year-end 2003 financial results. Total revenues for 2003 rose 2.3 percent to $831.0 million, up from $812.3 million in 2002. Earnings...

Rural Services Take Center Stage

A first-of-its-kind Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forum last week highlighted a wide array of ways that satellites can serve rural consumers across the United States. The event’s significance was underscored...

Satellite TV Chips Away At Cable

Intensifying competition from high-powered satellite TV services has left cable TV subscriber growth at just 2 percent a year and caused certain cable operators to suffer net subscriber losses, according...

FCC Champions Rural Use of Satellites

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deserves high praise for holding a series of informative panel discussions last Tuesday that highlighted the ways satellites can be used to help rural Americans....

The Real Satellite Radio Boom Begins

By Jimmy Schaeffler It’s long been said that Wall Street investors trade stocks based on a company’s expected performance during the next quarter. If true, the year-end stock price gains...

Tandberg CEO Confident Over HD In Europe

Tandberg Television expects to play a key role as the high-definition TV (HDTV) market takes shape in Europe. While the market in the United States for high-definition (HD) continues to...

Alcatel Space Signs Key Defense Deals

Alcatel Space has had a good start to the year in terms of government and institutional communications. It has announced two major deals in January. It announced that it has...