Author: Staff Writer

by Amanda L. Kazdoy Satellite industry experts tend to agree that Africa is in dire need of basic telecommunications services, particularly in rural communities. As developing regions are becoming more...

by James Careless This year has been better than 1998 for the Asia-Pacific satellite community, but not by much. On the technical side, it’s been a mixed bag: Asiasat 3S...

by Robustiano Fernandez Europe is a study in contrasts. To many overseas observers, it presents an increasingly unified and sophisticated front, and in many respects Europe is a united, if...

by Scott Chase Ask Arthur C. Clarke, entrepreneur, inventor, adventurer and, for many, the "father" of communications via satellite, what futures he sees for mankind in the new century, and...

By Cynthia Boeke The past year has been an eventful one, notable for what happened, as well as for what failed to materialize. In the latter category, two multibillion-dollar mobile...

by James Careless There’s likely no satellite region more complex and challenging to comprehend than the Middle East. At the heart of the situation is, of course, the ongoing Israeli/Arab...

Italian electricity utility Enel has received the necessary go-ahead from the EU to take a 30 per cent in Canal Plus-led digital platform Telepiu, but is facing criticism from leading...

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for...

Youth channel Rapture has joined the Sky Digital line up on Astra, increasing its carriage by a third to approximately 5.7 million homes including analogue satellite and cable. Rapture, owned...

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new...