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By Owen D. Kurtin According to several published reports, satellite insurance premiums are approaching 25 percent of satellite procurement costs. As is widely known in the industry, launch/post-separation and in-orbit […]

People Andrew Names New Satcom Group President Andrew Corp. named Jude Panetta the president of the company’s satellite communications group. Panetta was formerly the vice president and general manager for […]

DirecTV Inc. said it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, against seven individuals it claims fraudulently obtained DirecTV direct-to-home satellite television services for other […]

XM Satellite Radio said it is raising the cost of its basic monthly service package to $12.95 per month, $3 more than the current per-month charge. However, existing customers will […]

Sandvine Inc. said Hughes Network Systems Inc. selected the Sandvine Attack Mitigation solution for operation on its Direcway broadband satellite network. The HNS Direcway service will deploy Sandvine’s multi-layer worm/denial […]

Harmonic Inc. said it completed the acquisition of U.K.-based Broadcast Technology Ltd. (BTL). By integrating BTL into Harmonic’s Convergent Systems division, Harmonic said it is able to expand the scope […]

Sea Launch said it has rescheduled the launch of the XM-3 satellite for XM Satellite Radio on a Zenit-3SL rocket for Feb. 28 after this edition of Satellite Today went […]

Space Systems/Loral said the SS/L built MTSAT-1R was successfully launched at 1:25 a.m. PST Feb. 26. SS/L built the satellite, based on its 1300 bus for the Japanese Civil Aviation […]

New York-based Wendy’s of Rochester Inc., a franchisee of Wendy’s International Inc., is comprised of more than 100 Wendy’s restaurants spread throughout the New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Southwest […]

Throughout our issues of Satellite Business Solutions, we have profiled success stories of medium and large corporations effectively using a satellite-enabled network to advance business plans and grow revenue. From […]

Corporate Executives at Major League Baseball (MLB) were faced with a significant dilemma: they needed to increase viewership and widen the access of the games, expanding the brand beyond the […]

SES Americom, an SES Global company, said it appointed Jack Friedman to the position of senior vice president and general counsel. In this role, Friedman is responsible for all SES […]

ABC Companies, which sells and leases new and pre-owned highway coaches, said it entered into an agreement with Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) under which FMS will provide ABC a satellite-based […]

TVN Entertainment Corp. said World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. signed a wide-ranging video-on-demand (VOD) preferred partner services agreement. The agreement covers satellite VOD services and distribution for WWE’s new subscription VOD […]

Gilat Satellite Networks CEO Shlomo Rodav is confident the company is in a position to derive strong revenue growth in the next few years. In its last full year results […]

Via Satellite magazine, sister publication to Satellite Today, named iDirect Technologies President and CEO John Kealey as the 2004 satellite executive of the year. “Kealey materializes a business practice that […]

Only a few years ago, Iridium Satellite LLC, like others in the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) sector was teetering on the edge of extinction. But Iridium Satellite LLC is showing […]

The asset tracking market will soon see a new market competitor coming to the industry with a different game plan to attract new customers, one that takes a page from […]

Via Satellite magazine, sister publication to Satellite News, named iDirect Technologies President and CEO John Kealey as the 2004 satellite executive of the year. “Kealey materializes a business practice that […]

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) recently offered its satellite-based communications services to help Intel Corp. show off its latest Centrino mobile technology platform. Intel has been hosting a series of demonstration […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Chairman and CEO Shlomo Rodav is confident the company can increase its overall revenues in 2005 and that the company can soon return to profitability. Gilat has […]

By Robert Bell Pier du Plessis is South African by birth and a turnaround artist by trade. With a background in sales, marketing, finance and accountancy, he worked for several […]

In what is a continuation of its trend to build a strong content offering, Sirius Satellite Radio announced last week that it signed an agreement giving the company exclusive North […]

Space Systems/Loral announced it completed all assembly, integration and tests of the DirecTV 8 satellite more than two months ahead of the contracted schedule. The DirecTV 8 satellite, built for […]

Digital+, the direct-to-home (DTH) platform in Spain, announced a subscriber growth for the first time in a number of quarters. At the end of December 2004, the operator had more […]

Modulus Video said it opened a new office in Tokyo, Japan to support the growing demand from satellite, telecommunications and cable service providers for MPEG-4 AVC video encoding systems. Broadcast […]

Humax said it entered into development and supply agreements with DirecTV Inc. According to Humax, the agreements encompass various set top box models, including a portion of the entry-level receivers […]

The Boeing Co. said it reached an agreement to sell its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business unit to Pratt & Whitney for about $700 million in cash. Rocketdyne is primarily […]

iDirect Technologies introduced the latest addition to its product platform: the iDirect Compression and Acceleration Server (CAS) technology. The CAS solution compresses and accelerates static and dynamic data and content, […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. said the National Air Navigation Services Co. (NANSC) in Egypt awarded it an $8.1 million contract to install a next generation satellite- based network connecting 19 remote […]