Author: Staff Writer

Gilat Restructures, Changes Leadership

Petah Tikva, Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF], a satellite networking technology services provider, is undergoing a major restructuring and leadership change aimed at helping it firm up its financial...

Spacenet Beefs Up Arby's Broadband

Arby’s, a U.S. fast food restaurant chain known for its thinly sliced roast beef sandwiches, is among the latest franchise businesses to adopt satellite broadband VSAT (very small aperture terminal)...

New Skies' Business Strategy Boosts Earnings

Cost controls, stabilizing prices and additional capacity allowed New Skies Satellites N.V. [NYSE: NSK] to post heightened revenues and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for second...

Space Imaging's Wildfire Contract

Space Imaging has received a contract from the Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) to provide satellite imagery and other products in support of fire management planning and wildfire risk...

Court Grants EchoStar's Motion

The U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta has granted EchoStar Communications’ [Nasdaq: DISH] motion to stay a district court’s injunction, pending appeal. The court decision impacts a...

ORBCOMM Selects EDC For Africa

Dulles, Va.-based ORBCOMM has selected European Datacomm Holding (EDC) as its service distribution partner in the sub-Saharan Africa region to market ORBCOMM’s low-Earth orbit satellite services to commercial customers. Both...

Telenor Upgrades Network

Telenor Satellite Services has upgraded its Inmarsat C ground network and has begun transitioning all of its Inmarsat C services to its earth station at Eik in Norway. As a...

Bluewire To Provide Broadband

Bluewire Solutions, a unit of Chronos Technology, is offering rural communities and small businesses in the United Kingdom broadband solutions based on radio, satellite and DSL technology. Bluewire Solutions is...

PlanetLink Engages Karta To Design GPS Product

PlanetLink Communications [OTC BB: PLKC], a Cummings, Ga.-based provider of satellite-based products and services, has engaged San Antonio, Texas- based Karta Technologies under an existing consulting agreement to begin work...