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Primus Telecommunications Group [Nasdaq: PRTL], a facilities-based telecommunications services provider, has received approval effective today to list its common stock on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol “PRTL.” Primus’...

The BBC hopes that itsdecision not to pay conditional access fees to BSkyB, a News Corp [NYSE: NWS] affiliate,will not sour relations between the two companies. The BBC confirmed earlier...

BCE [NYSE: BCE] subsidiary Telesat Canada has signed a contract with International Launch Services to launch its new Anik F1R satellite aboard a Russian Proton M/Breeze M rocket in 2005....

ISecuretrac [OTC: ISRE], developer of Global Positioning System-based personal tracking devices, has signed a distribution agreement to provide Premier Geografix LTD with its tracNET24 GPS tracking solution for distribution in...

XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] and SoundExchange, have agreed to royalty rates and terms for the public performance of copyrighted sound recordings by the satellite...

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed an agreement that makes Stratos [Toronto: SGB] a principal reseller to the trucking industry of EMS’ (Atlanta) suite of satellite communications terminals. With the...

Sea Launch said Thursday that it is ready to resume satellite launches following completion of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) investigation into the failure of the ILS...

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has deployed a fixed rural satellite telephony network for Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel) to serve 170 communities throughout Nicaragua. The new Enitel network, based...

Mars Express, the European Space Agency‘s first spacecraft developed for a mission to the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months of extensive thermal environmental,...

Zarlink Semiconductor [NYSE: ZL] won a contract to provide its MT312 demodulator chip for a new digital set-top box satellite receiver manufactured by Chinese satellite TV equipment company FuZhou ZhuoYi...