Author: Staff Writer

On August 2, ENAV, Alenia Marconi Systems and Telespazio (part of the Telecom Italia group) signed an agreement with the proposed European satellite navigation system Galileo. The partners now intend...

For one week (from August 1 to August 7) the inhabitants of the French archipelagos of the Marquises, the Tuamutu-Gambier and the Austral Islands had to For one week (from...

(A = Analog, D = Digital) 78.5 degreesE: S Thaicom 2&3 D: MRTV, the Myanmar (Burma) based broadcaster, is testing a new international channel named MRTV 3 on 3675MHz horizontal,...

CNBC Europe has begun transmissions within the ZDF digital multiplex on Astra 19 degrees East. The business news channel was previously available as part of the Premiere World package in...

By David Hartshorn VISA, Reuters, Peugeot, Argyle, and Weat are birds of a feather. While they hark from different European commercial arenas–credit, financial services, automotive, retail and utilities, respectively–each is...

by Gerry Oberst In February 2001, U.K. officials formally published an action plan to help drive forward national broadband networks. Their report, entitled “U.K. Online: The Broadband Future,” recognized that...

By Theresa Foley The heady days when satellite operators raved about the explosive demand growth that had no end in sight are over. Two more satellite-related companies collapsed in the...

By Nick Mitsis The business television (BTV) arena continues to change. Technological developments throughout the last year, according to industry executives, have rerouted this niche market from traditional transmission to...

By Robert N. Wold Their spirit continues, but many of the venerable teleports, uplinkers and switching providers, most of them less than two decades old, have been acquired and changed...

by Armand Musey Recently, Hughes Network Systems (HNS) held a press and investor luncheon in New York to unveil DirecWay, its next generation of two-way broadband satellite services. In our...