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Intelsat CFO Joe Corbett told attendees at SATELLITE 2003 Tuesday that he expected market conditions to improve sufficiently by June of next year to allow the global satellite operator to […]

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat is seeking permission from the European Commission to extend the June 30 deadline for the company to hold an initial public stock offering (IPO). Eutelsat CFO […]

Consolidation was on everyone’s lips at the opening panel of SATELLITE 2003. New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg questioned whether industry consolidation is likely to happen, despite continuing […]

At the opening panel of PBI Media‘s SATELLITE 2003 conference being held in Washington, D.C., this week, PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] CEO Joe Wright questioned whether there is an open process […]

A = Analogue D = Digital 105.5 degreesE: Asiasat 3S D The Hindi-language channel Sahara TV has left 3660 MHz vertical but continues to be available via 4020 MHz vertical, […]

By Thomas Watts The satellite industry has been waiting for Intelsat’s initial public offering (IPO) for almost three years now, since the passage of the Open-Market Reorganisation for the Betterment […]

As predicted by Interspace, Modern Times Group (MTG), the Nordic pay-TV operator, has ditched Viaccess in favour of NDS for its conditional access (CA) system. MTG, through its broadcasting and […]

Intelsat is set for a busy year. The satellite operator still hopes to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year. It also put in a bid to buy European […]

Space Imaging Southeast Asia, an affiliate of U.S.-based Space Imaging, has begun direct tasking and data collection of high-resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The operations as well as the […]

France Telecom’s Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in the Middle […]

Telesat Canada on Feb. 20 experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic. […]

Satellite capacity will play a bigger role in Asia, particularly in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where there are fewer terrestrial alternatives for telecoms and data services, according to […]

By Juliette Salvati Considered by many, in the 1990s, to be the next big step in satellite communications, and subsequently rejected at the outset of the tech bubble crash, the […]

Boeing has high hopes for its Connexion service, an airline in-flight broadband service aimed at providing passengers with better entertainment and Internet access via satellite. Recently, Boeing signed a deal […]

What a difference a couple of months make. When Interspace spoke to New Skies Satellites CEO Dan Goldberg in November (Interspace, issue 757), the operator was confident that it would […]

BSkyB could reach the magic seven million subscriber by the middle of the year, some six months ahead of schedule. The operator added 244,000 subscribers in the quarter ending Dec. […]

Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [NYSE: LOR], provided in-orbit capacity to assist Discovery Health Network in presenting a live broadcast from inside maternity wards of hospitals […]

The continent of Africa offers some strong growth opportunities for satellite and mobile telecom operators, according to a study by CIT-PriMetrica. CIT-PriMetrica’s “Yearbook of African Telecommunications for 2003,” to be […]

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] is providing broadband satellite communications equipment and services to support an important new joint venture in Mexico between GlobalSat and Intelsat Global Service. GlobalSat is […]

The European Space Agency has signed contracts with the ELV Co. tocomplete the development phase of the Vega European small launcher program and with FiatAvio to develop the P80 advanced […]

GlobeCast, a satellite broadcast subsidiary of France Telecom [NYSE: FTE], has extended its fiber network to Asia with the inauguration of a 45-Mbps transpacific fiber trunk between Singapore and Los […]

Merrill Lynch is boosting estimates for EchoStar Communications‘ [Nasdaq: DISH] fourth-quarter subscriber growth by 15,000 due to lower subscriber churn than anticipated. The change brings subscriber estimates for the direct […]

FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin is scheduled to address several hundred attendees at Tuesday’s luncheon session of the “Satellite Finance and New Services Forecast 2003.” The session is being held at […]

Mobile satellite service operator Inmarsat will retire its Inmarsat A service at the end of 2007 to more efficiently create satellite capacity for its latest digital services, the company said. […]

Advanced Digital Information [Nasdaq: ADIC] (Redmond, Wash.), which provides storage management software, is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) to manage […]

Digital broadcast platformsupplier Scopus Network Technologies has signed a pact to supply a complete head-end digital broadcasting system to Television and Radio Broadcasting Services Australia Pty. Ltd. (TARBS). TARBS’ new […]

Helius, a provider of satellite broadband routing systems, is making it easier for its customers to finance their purchases of new routers by forging an alliance with Canopy Capital. Multiple […]

Ramu Potarazu, president and chief operating officer of Intelsat Global Service, will be promoted to president and COO of the parent company Intelsat Ltd. next month, the company announced today. […]

The successful launch of the last Ariane 4 rocket not only carried the Intelsat 907 satellite into orbit but also ushered in a new era of dependence by Arianespace on […]

Latin America’s satellite and network services sector is reeling from a worldwide economic downturn, and no one expects much improvement anytime soon. Many companies in the region receive revenues in […]