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Spacenet Inc. said it was selected by Sybra Inc. to provide a Connexstar broadband satellite network to the 237 Arby’s restaurants Sybra operates nationwide. The VSAT network will support retail […]

Boeing said it recently delivered 16 airborne satellite communications systems to the U.S. Air Force that will be used to enhance aircrew’s real-time situation awareness in the cockpit. The Air […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures said it selected Evercore Partners to provide financial, fundraising and strategic advisory services to the company to ensure there is the financial and partner support necessary for […]

Australian DTH operator, Foxtel has teamed up with OpenTV to attack the interactive advertising market in Australia. Foxtel is launching an end-to-end two-way interactive advertising (i-Ad) solution based on OpenTV […]

SES Americom said its occasional use satellite services will be used to deliver network and affiliate television coverage of the forthcoming Space Shuttle launch later this spring. It is the […]

Sea Launch LLC said DirecTV Inc.‘s Spaceway F1 satellite is on its way to the company’s equatorial launch site location in preparation for a scheduled April 26 launch on board […]

LAS VEGAS–With a two-year non-compete clauses following the sale of certain satellites to Intelsat set to expire in March 2006, Loral Skynet is preparing to come back into the U.S. […]

Sky Network Television Limited (Sky), the leading DTH operator in New Zealand is entering the games rental business in New Zealand. The satellite pay-TV operator is expanding its online DVD […]

Microspace Communications Corp. said its Velocity satellite system was selected by ClubCom to provide programming to ClubCom’s extensive network of health clubs in the United States and Europe. “After evaluating […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. said it was awarded multiple contracts from an unnamed existing customer valued at approximately $2.4 million. One of the contracts, valued at $1.4 million is for fixed […]

iDirect Technologies and Helius Inc. formed a strategic technology relationship to provide what was described as “an evolutionary platform for the distribution of data, rich media and business information.” The […]

SES Americom said it signs an agreement with Crown Castle Mobile Media to enable the delivery of live television to a wide range of mobile handsets. As part of the […]

SES Americom and Home2US announced a new offering to bring a line-up of Korea Telecom‘s broadcast channels to viewers in North and South America. “The alliance between Home2US and SES […]

Irdeto Access said Hispamar Satellite has selected the company’s M-Crypt conditional access solution to secure content distributed throughout Brazil. The first customer application of this security technology will be to […]

New Skies Satellites B.V. said it signed an agreement with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to accommodate the transmission of live coverage from news and sports events originating in or […]

Acterna launched a new satellite interface to its DTS product line that will enable the MPEG analyzer to perform thorough analyses of satellite network components and monitor how they react […]

GlobeCast yesterday launched its WING global IP-based content management platform at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference, being held this week in Las Vegas. The platform forms the backbone […]

ViaSat Inc. said it is supplying its LinkStar VSAT satellite communication networking system to the Department of Education of Puerto Rico to develop and distribute educational resources throughout the country. […]

Intelsat said it is teaming up with Broadwing Communications LLC and HTN to deliver a new set of services to broadcasters. The operators interconnected their respective North American fiber distribution […]

Intelsat said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found the company to be in compliance with the privatization requirements of the ORBIT Act. The FCC found that Intelsat has substantially diluted […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. said it signed a contract to provide a new geosynchronous communications satellite to Panamsat Corp. The satellite will provide C- and Ku- band fixed telecommunications and direct-to-home […]

United Press International reported that KDDI Network and Solutions Inc. will offer Iridium satellite services to the Japanese market, marking the first time in five years the service will be […]

Eagle Broadband said its board of directors promoted David Micek to the position of president and CEO from his position as COO. Micek succeeds Dave Weisman, who will continue to […]

The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications said Vadim Belov, who was elected director general earlier this month, has officially assumed his position within the organization. Russian Telecommunications Administration nominated […]

SES Astra said UPC agreed to lease a fourth transponder on the SES satellite fleet located at 19.2 degrees East. The latest leased transponder is on the Astra 1E satellite. […]

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, said that August 23 will be the launch date for the MSG-2 satellite, which will be renamed Meteosat-9 once it […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB announced a number of deals with suppliers as it gets set to launch HDTV (High Definition Television) services in the United Kingdom and Ireland in […]

Although the decision to shut down Cablevision‘s Rainbow DBS operations, which did business under the Voom brand name, was made public earlier this month, work on a $740 million contract […]

A Congressional hearing about the progress being made toward meeting the goals of the Open-Market Reorganization for the Betterment of International Telecommunications (ORBIT) Act quickly focused on a couple of […]

While companies like Iridium Satellite LLC and Globalstar LLC have been able to recover after a shaky first stab at the market, the mention of those names and Mobile Satellite […]