Author: Staff Writer

America Online Inc. [AOL] and Hughes Network Systems Inc. [GMH] plan to start Beta tests of their planned AOL Plus Powered by DirecPC service in about 16 markets, including New...

Telenor AS, the Norwegian national telephone company, has won a license to provide satellite services in Morocco. It plans to invest about $2.7 million this year to install VSAT earth...

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [SIRI] said Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Inc. has agreed to provide it with a $150 million committed credit facility. Loans under...

Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) is wasting no time in developing additional services and promoting itself, several months in advance of the planned launch of its commercial service. ACeS has joined...

Italian public broadcaster RAI has established a holding company that will combine its Internet and satellite TV units (Interspace 694). Announcing the initiative on May 8, RAI president Roberto Zaccaria...

RTL Television continued to be Germany’s most watched television channel in May. According to the latest GfK figures, the Cologne-based channel reached an average audience market share among viewers of...

Canal+ has officially confirmed its interest in a merger of Poland’s two leading digital satellite platforms Cyfra+ and Wizja TV. Although there have been suggestions of a meeting of minds...

By Peter Brown At the Internet Protocol (IP) via satellite cafe, voice over IP (VoIP) has slipped quite quietly onto the menu. Is VoIP via satellite ready for the main...

The foreign services platform Fremdsprachenplattform (FSP) which wants to provide independent German cable operators with international radio and television channels from September, will use capacity on Eutelsat’s new ‘Hot Bird’...

by Gerry Oberst A small provision in the recent Intelsat privatization law adopted by the United States in mid-March this year could have large implications for the international satellite field....