Intelsat To Name Potarazu President & COO
Ramu Potarazu, president and chief operating officer of Intelsat Global Service, will be promoted to president and COO of the parent company Intelsat Ltd. next month, the company announced today....
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Arianespace's Challenging Future
The successful launch of the last Ariane 4 rocket not only carried the Intelsat 907 satellite into orbit but also ushered in a new era of dependence by Arianespace on...
Latin Operators In Limbo
Latin America’s satellite and network services sector is reeling from a worldwide economic downturn, and no one expects much improvement anytime soon. Many companies in the region receive revenues in...
Canada Mulls Lifting Foreign Ownership Limits
Canada’s parliament is holding hearings this month to review whether to ease its foreign ownership restrictions in the telecommunications sector. Canadian law requires telecom companies — wireline, wireless and satellite...
Spotlight: British Airways Tests In-flight Broadband
British Airways is trying out the new Connexion by Boeing’s in-flight satellite broadband service onboard one of its daily transatlantic flight between London and New York. The service is designed...
Canadian DBS: The Northern Duopoly
Canada has almost 32 million people and roughly 2.1 million of the country’s 11 million-plus TV households (TVHHs) receive their direct broadcast satellite (DBS) signals either from Star Choice or...
Fastrax GPS Powers Globalpoint Tracking Beacons For Asset Management
Global Positioning System receiver developer Fastrax and Globalpoint, a U.K. technology company specializing in asset tracking applications, have introduced the Globalpoint Companion product line, which includes miniature tracking beacons with...
Qualcomm Tests First A-GPS Location Session Over GSM Networks
Qualcomm [Nasdaq: QCOM] has tested the first assisted-Global Positioning System position location sessions over live GSM communications networks using its MGP6200 multimode GPS processor. The location calls, made in Europe...
On2 Provides ABC News With Software for News Gathering
ABC News has agreed to purchase On2 Technologies‘ [AMEX: ONT] Laptop News Gathering (LNG) system to enable its correspondents covering the Iraqi crisis to transmit reports via satellite. The unit...
British Airways Tests In-flight Connexion by Boeing Service
British Airways [NYSE: BAB] is trying out the new Connexion by Boeing‘s in-flight satellite broadband service onboard a daily transatlantic flight between London and New York. The service gives passengers...