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Australian private-equity investment firm Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners (CHAMP) has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Austar United Communications [Sydney: AUN.AX], in line with a plan announced...

Yukon Telephone, the incumbent provider for the rural Alaskan communities of Whittier, Tanana and Ruby, has selected MetaSwitch‘s VP3500 next-generation class 5 switch to replace its existing Mitel and Redcom...

IONA [Nasdaq: IONA], a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of integration software, and Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA] that provides communication services to aircraft, have announced that...

Tyco Telecommunications, a Morristown, N.J.-based business unit of Tyco Electronics, has been selected by a subsidiary of the Norwegian Space Center (NSC) to supply the Svalbard undersea cable system linking...

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT]COO Jim Frownfelter is optimistic market conditions will turn around in 2004, although he concedes this year is likely to be tough. PanAmSat recently issued some encouraging first...

WildBlue Communications announced Tuesday that Liberty Satellite & Technology [OTC:LSTTA], Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and David Drucker, WildBlue’s chairman, have finalized their $156...

Toshiba America Electronic Components has launched a single-chip, high-definition digital multimedia decoder device with an integrated 64-bit 200 MHz MIPS-based reduced instruction set computer TX49 central processing unit, an MPEG-2...

Geospatial engineering company I-cubed has developed a satellite image mosaic of the Middle East for use by the media covering the Iraq conflict. The mosaic includes Bahrain, Iraq, Israel/the West...

Globecomm Systems [Nasdaq:GCOM], a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based provider of satellite-based products, landed a $4.2 million turnkey direct-to-home infrastructure contract from an unidentified U.S. customer. Under the terms of the contract, Globecomm...

Week of April 11 – 17, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol April 17 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.33 9.9 (11.9)...