Author: Staff Writer

By David Hartshorn Expanded satellite market access and earth station interoperability topped the telecom agenda at a recent government/industry meeting held in El Salvador. The focus was to identify the...

Recent gains in promoting access to broadband services in Latin America have resulted from intensive private and public sector efforts to improve satellite regulations throughout the region. Collaboration among officials...

Philips Consumer Electronics [NYSE: PHG], the Dutch-based electronics manufacturer, hopes to take advantage of the consolidation in satellite pay-TV markets across Europe to provide better products and services to its...

Belgian telecom operator Belgacom has signed a multi-transponder deal with Intelsat to become part of Intelsat’s global satellite network, enabling Belgacom to provide high- speed Internet access to ISPs in...

Week of Nov. 28- Dec. 4, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Dec. 4 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.56 (1.2) 3.6...

Dubai, UAE-based Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) has selected Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], as its provider of Internet connectivity and direct broadcast television (DBS) services...

Inmarsat Ventures, EADS Space and the Thales Group have submitted a joint tender to become a concessionaire for the multi-billion dollar European Galileo satellite navigation project. The bid by the...

Rome Research Corp. (RRC), a subsidiary of PAR Technology [NYSE: PTC], was awarded a $1 million contract to operate and maintain the Department of Defense teleport commercial satellite terminal systems...

SES Americom, a subsidiary of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], and Nordic Satellite (NSAB) signed an agreement to transfer on Jan. 1 the pan-European beam on the SIRIUS 2 satellite from...

OPADS LLC has begun offering aggregated digital video programming transport via satellite to small- and medium-sized video franchises under the trade name SkyWayconnect. Founding partners of OPADS are ATCi, a...