Alcatel Space Inks $17M Satellite Deal With CNES
Alcatel Space, the satellite manufacturing arm of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has signed a 15 million euro ($17 million) contract with the French space agency CNES for the third and...
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Orbcomm, GE Unit Team on Trailer Tracking
Orbcomm, a Dulles, Va.-based satellite communications provider, has signed an agreement with GE Transport International Pool, a unit of General Electric [NYSE: GE],to provide data transmitting services for GE’s asset...
Iridium Gets OK To Sell Satellite Phone Services in Iraq
Iridium Satellite, an Arlington, Va.-based provider of satellite voice and data communications, has received authorization from the Coalition Provisional Authority (the current governing authority of Iraq) and the Iraqi Ministry...
SBC, EchoStar Forge Alliance To Offer Bundled Services
San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications [NYSE: SBC] and Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] have formed a strategic partnership to let SBC companies “aggressively market” co-branded SBC DISH Network multichannel...
Qwest Forges Agreement With Satellite TV Providers for Bundled Services
Denver-based Qwest Communications International [NYSE: Q] has signed strategic marketing agreements with Hughes Electronics’ [NYSE: GMH] DirecTV and EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] to make satellite TV services available to its...
Loral Looks Beyond Bankruptcy
Loral Space and Communications [NYSE: LOR] agreed last week to sell arguably its most precious assets and to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection for the chance of emerging from the...
Intelsat Fills Void With Loral Deal
Intelsat Ltd., of Hamilton, Bermuda, is addressing one of its most glaring weaknesses by signing a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire six Loral Skynet satellites and orbital slots over...
Spotlight: Baseball's All-Star Game Goes Global
Major League Baseball fans in more than 200 countries worldwide watched last week’s All-Star Game with an assist that came from a distance much further away than the nose-bleed seats...
Satellite Radio Industry Revenue Projections
By Sean Badding The digital satellite radio industry’s run to its one-millionth subscriber is approaching fast. The Carmel Group predicts this first major milestone will be broken during August-September 2003....
PanAmSat Puts In-Orbit Satellite Woes In Perspective
PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] President and CEO Joseph Wright said that technical problems aboard two of the company’s Boeing 601 model satellites now in orbit will not disrupt services to customers...