Author: Staff Writer

Daniel Marcus, formerly the vice president for corporate communications at PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT], has established his own marketing and communications firm, Marcus Associates LLC, in Westport, Conn. He said the...

Telia Mobile, the cellular carrier subsidiary of Sweden’s largest telecommunications company, has signed an agreement with Globalstar Northern Europe Ltd. that will extend Globalstar’s satellite-based telephone service throughout Sweden. Subscribers...

Shrewd Financing Move Provides Cash Until Next Spring It looks like Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] will be in business until at least the first quarter of next year. In a move...

Comsat Corp. [CQ] has won a three-year, $9 million contract to provide Internet access at 90 megabits per second – the equivalent of about 500 pages of text per second...

GlobeCast, the worldwide broadcasting arm of France Telecom [FTE], plans to launch a broadband service providing Internet access to the Indian subcontinent from the Europe*Star 1 satellite later this year....

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] which recently won a contract for more than 15,000 broadband, Ka-band, two-way VSAT terminals for service with SES/Astra’s 1H satellite, has subcontracted with Norsat International Inc....

NTV-Plus, Russia’s DTH satellite pay-TV system, has begun transmitting from Eutelsat’s W4 satellite at 36 degrees East. A total of 19 transponders on W4 are switched into a high-power fixed...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is one of a group of private investors involved in a $1 billion refinancing of London-based ICI, the bankrupt LEO outfit that was taken under the...

A Geneva court has ruled that @Entertainment, the former owner of the Wizja TV digital satellite platform should pay a $10 million indemnity to Cyfra+ the Canal+ Polish affiliate. Two...

Hispasat’s Board of Directors has approved the construction of a new satellite, Hispasat 1D which will be built by Alcatel Space Industries, and launched by International Launch Services in the...