Author: Staff Writer

Although U.S. satellite operators have bitten the bullet and gone ahead with the development of large Ka-band satellite systems, Europeans operators are merely dipping their toes in the higher frequency...

Last year will not go down as one of the greatest for satellite operators. In fact, with capacity pricing pressure and harsh operating conditions, the game for many was about...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 100.5 degreesE: Asiasat 2 D – Pakistan TV (PTV) have announced that they are to launch a dedicated news channel on July 1....

Canal+ Technologies CEO Francois Carayol is looking to take participate actively in the consolidation of the conditional access (CA) system and middleware industry consolidation. He told the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ European Media...

by Armand Musey Last month, we wrote how satellite television services are becoming the principal economic driver of the global satellite industry and what a merger of Echostar and Hughes...

By Nick Mitsis The landscape of competition and regional satellite services growth within Latin America continues to change. Alongside the growing capacity rate, more satellite companies are increasing their business...

by Richard DalBello The answer may be 36,021 km + (1000 * CR * A/m). As to the question, well, we have to go back a couple of decades to...

by Gerry Oberst The Financial Times calls it “a white elephant preparing for take-off.” The Wall Street Journal calls it a “duplicative system that replaces one that already exists and...

By Peter J. Brown When it comes to delivering Internet-based content and providing high-speed IP data services over satellite, the satellite industry’s radars are sweeping the sky, searching for the...

Theresa Foley The dust has cleared from the mobile satellite services (MSS) bankruptcies of the last few years, leaving a three-way contest among steady-sailing Inmarsat and its two restructured post-bankruptcy...