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90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D Evrasija TV [Eurasia TV] has been replaced by Oblastnoe TV from Ekaterinburg on 3600 MHz LHCP, SR 4285, FEC 3/4, VPID 308, APID 256. Several...
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Italian Pay-TV Merger Completed After Regulatory OK
After receiving European Commission approval in early April, the sale of Italian pay-TV satellite operator Telepiu has been completed. As a result, Vivendi Universal [NYSE: V] has raised some much...
Inmarsat CEO Ponders Future After War
The clock is ticking for Inmarsat. The mobile satellite operator faces a June 30 deadline set by the U.S. Congress in the ORBIT Act to hold an initial public offering....
Study: Untapped Revenues for Satellites in Access, Distribution Markets
Satellite service providers have made limited inroads in the enterprise IP data networking market, notes Northern Sky Research in its latest series of research report entitled “Satellite IP Data Services...
EMS Delivers Antenna Component for DoD EHF Satellite System
EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] said it has delivered ahead of schedule an engineering model of the beam-forming network (BFN) for the U.S. Department of Defense‘s advanced EHF satellite system. The...
Delphi Distributes XM Radios With Wal-Mart
Delphi Product & Service Solutions, a unit of Delphi Corp. [NYSE: DPH], has signed up mass retailer Wal-Mart [NYSE: WMT] to sell Delphi XM SKYFi radios and other products in...
AGS, JSAT Ink Regional Satellite Pact
Americom Government Services (AGS) and Japan’s JSAT Corp. (JSAT) have signed a business collaboration agreement to support each company’s pursuit and execution of U.S. government-related satellite-based communications services in the...
EchoStar's Revenues Jump 23 Percent
EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq:DISH] Tuesday reported 2003 first-quarter revenues of $1.36 billion, a 23 percent increase from $1.1 billion for the same period in 2002. The company’s earnings before interest, taxes,...
Inmarsat Expects Continued Growth In Data Market
London-based mobile satellite service provider Inmarsat now derives more than half of its revenues from mobile data services, according to President and CEO Michael Storey. And this growth in data...
New Skies, KMS/FalconStream Partner In Multi-transponder Deal
New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK], a Dutch-based satellite communications company, and KMS/FalconStream, a Kuwaiti information technology firm that provides Internet connectivity services via satellite, have signed a long-term multi-transponder, multi-satellite...