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Inmarsat, Telefonica Sign Broadcasting Contract

Telefonica International Wholesale Services signed with Inmarsat to distribute the Broadband Global Area Network service to Telefonica Wholesaler’s own channels. The contract will allow Inmarsat access to the 19 countries...

Eumetsat Says Meteosat-9 Now Operational

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, completed commissioning of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2) satellite, Eumetsat announced. The spacecraft is being prepared for relocation to 0°...

ILS Sets Hot Bird 8 Launch

Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 8 satellite was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 6, in advanced of a scheduled Aug. 5 launch aboard a Russian Proton rocket, International Launch...

Hughes Applies For NASDAQ Listing

Hughes Communications Inc. applied to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market, the company announced July 5. Hughes began offering shares in February on the over-the-counter bulleting board...

Sirius Continues To Gain On XM

Sirius Satellite Radio added 600,460 net subscribers during the second quarter of 2006 to bring its total subscriber base to 4.7 million, the company announced July 6. Rival XM Satellite...