DirecTV Loses Yankees Advantage In Battle With Cablevision
DirecTV has lost a marketing advantage it held in 2002 in many parts of New York when a major cable TV operator could not reach an agreement with the Yes...
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FCC Chairman Powell Leads Panel On Emergency Services
Leaders from the satellite, telecommunications, Internet service and cable industries are considering ways to safeguard services in the event of an attack on the U.S. communications infrastructure. Recommendations were offered...
Intelsat Forms Three New Business Units
Intelsat has formed three business units that report to President and COO Ramu Potarazu. A new business unit, Data, Carrier & Internet, will be led by John Stanton and concentrate...
Canal Digital CEO Looks For Interactive Progress
Nordic pay-TV operator Canal Digital expects to derive further revenues from interactive services in 2003 through a range of new service offerings. Canal Digital ended the year with just over...
Sarantel Launches Surface Mount GPS Antenna
U.K. antenna supplier Sarantel announced a surface mount version of its GeoHelix miniature Global Positioning System antenna. Sarantel’s (Wellingborough, England) GeoHelix-S can be mounted directly onto GPS circuit boards, simplifying...
Canadian Weather Service Modernization Taps Into U.S. Satellites
The Canadian government is investing $75 million over five years that will allow the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) to improve the quality of its forecasts and its service to...
InterWAVE Gets $1.6M Satellite Services Contract From Vodacom
InterWAVE Communications International [Nasdaq:IWAV] has received a $1.6 million agreement with Vodacom Congo for a GSM network with an advanced satellite compression capabilities. InterWAVE said the network expects to provide...
QuickBird Satellite Imagery Aids In Forestry Management
Canada’s CLC-Camint is using DigitalGlobe’s (Longmont, Colo.) QuickBird satellite imagery to identify individual tree crowns in forest areas. With the ability to delineate and classify tree crowns, forestry professionals will...
Virtual Music Stores To Use DirecWay To Distribute CDs on Demand
Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE) has signed a multi-year contract with Virtual Music Stores (VMS) for DirecWay broadband satellite services. VMS will use DirecWay to distribute music content to its...
China Central Television Chooses GlobeCast's DTH Platform
GlobeCast, the satellite services unit of France Telecom [NYSE: FTE], said China’s national broadcaster CCTV-9 is available on its digital DTH Hot Bird platform as part of French satellite bouquet...