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General Technologies has launched satellite broadband services in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe following a six-month pilot phase. General Technologies aims to provide services to all types...

Two executives have been appointed to positions with MCI IDB Satellite Systems Group. Jack Walters, senior vice president in operations and technology at MCI, now is responsible for MCI IDB....

Subscriber feedback has spurred Canadian satellite TV services provider Bell ExpressVu to carry Catholic channel ETWN, said Tom Wenzel, EWTN’s director of marketing. Viewers of cable and satellite systems who...

CHICAGO–The Major Broadcasting Cable (MBC) Network so far has been unable to convince U.S. satellite TV companies to carry its predominantly African-American content despite launching service nearly four years ago....

The UK market is still one of the more progressive in terms of satellite broadband in Europe, opined Aramiska CEO Philippe Bodart. He told SATELLITE TODAY: “The push to get...

The High Court in Hong Kong ruled Wednesday against five defendants for importing and trading in unauthorized satellite TV signal decoding equipment. In the ruling, a judge granted an injunction...

Denver-based Space Imaging has won a contract from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to evaluate a new technology enabling the search of large satellite imagery databases for specific...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] launched two spacecraft Tuesday within hours of each other from different vantage points on the globe. In an early morning launch (6:56 a.m. PDT) from the equator,...

CHICAGO – Favorable subscriber reaction has spurred EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] to add a Spanish-language soccer channel to its top 150 English-language programming lineup, the satellite TV provider announced here...

CHICAGO – Satellite operators looking to capitalize on the rollout of high-definition TV (HDTV) must wait to receive a big payoff from carrying the bandwidth-intensive signals. HDTV content providers are...