Author: Staff Writer

Satellite Firms Become Fiber-Friendly

By | May 5, 2003
Major satellite operators are increasingly turning to fiber optic networks to speed their growth strategies. Once the enemy, fiber is now becoming the friend of satellite executives looking to cut...

FCC Has No Regrets On 12 GHz Band Sharing

By | May 5, 2003
Rejecting an effort by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association to overturn an earlier decision, the Federal Communications Commission last week reaffirmed its 2002 order allowing wireless cable operators to...

Spotlight: Surf the Web From Mt. Everest

By | May 5, 2003
Princeton, N.J.-based Americom Asia-Pacific is using satellite technology to launch what company officials describe as Mt. Everest’s first Internet café. The Internet café operated at Mt. Everest’s base camp went...

Is There A 'Magic Bullet'?

By | May 5, 2003
By Steve Symonds Broadband is the “hot button” du jour in the satellite marketplace. Every trade show, seminar, and magazine these days seems to be hyping how broadband services will...

ICO To Rescue Globalstar From Black Hole

By | May 5, 2003
ICO Global Communications, the troubled London-based mobile satellite startup, appears poised to jumpstart its delayed service launch by agreeing to pay $55 million to buy a controlling interest in the...

Gilat To Provide Tibet Telephony

By | May 5, 2003
Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has been selected by China Telecommunications to provide a large-scale, satellite-based rural telephony network in Tibet. China Telecom will make an initial purchase of a...

Alaska Selects SkyFrames

By | May 5, 2003
The community of Coffman Cove, Alaska, has selected SkyFrames [OTC Bulletin Board: SKYU] to install and coordinate the implementation of a satellite broadband network that will provide a 2-mile broadband...

Maqsat Joins Europe*Star

By | May 5, 2003
Maqsat, a Dutch satellite communications provider, has joined the Europe*Star gateway program. The program, consisting of network providers, national telecom providers and independent teleport operations, provides access to Europe*Star’s satellites....

Surge In Canada DTH Revenues

By | May 5, 2003
Revenues generated by Canadian firms in providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV and multipoint distribution system (MDS) services have soared since 1998, according to statistics released recently by the Canadian Radio-television...