Author: Staff Writer

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydraulic engineers are monitoring water levels in the New England region’s major rivers and the depth of snow cover throughout the region to regulate Corps...

NetCentrex, which provides next-generation networking products and applications for voice-over-IP (VoIP), PSTN and mobile networks, announced today that LatAmNap will use its CCS Softswitch and Media Server architectures to deploy...

Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] said its stockholders have overwhelmingly approved the company’s proposed recapitalization. A majority of Sirius (New York City) stockholders voted to approve transactions to exchange $700...

M2sat and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication are teaming up to offer satellite broadband services of 192 Kbps to the international broadcasting industry and other high-capacity users. Thuraya’s (Abu Dhabi, UAE) satellite...

EchoStar Communications [DISH] netted approximately 400,000 new subscribers during the fourth quarter to boost its subscriber total to 8.18 million at the end of 2002. EchoStar (Littleton, Colo.) also reported...

Merrill Lynch is boosting estimates for EchoStar Communications’ [DISH] fourth-quarter subscriber growth by 15,000 due to lower subscriber churn than anticipated. The change brings subscriber estimates for the direct broadcast...

GlobeCast, a satellite broadcast subsidiary of France Telecom [FTE], has extended its fiber network to Asia with the inauguration of a 45-Mbps transpacific fiber trunk between Singapore and Los Angeles,...

The European Space Agency has signed contracts with the ELV Co. to complete the development phase of the Vega European small launcher program and with FiatAvio to develop the P80...

Fisher Pathways, a provider of video and data connectivity and distribution, and DWJ Television, which produces broadcast communications services, have signed an agreement under which Pathways will provide studio services,...

Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] is providing broadband satellite communications equipment and services to support an important new joint venture in Mexico between GlobalSat and Intelsat Global Service. GlobalSat is teaming...