Connectivity

One of the more interesting resolutions to come out of the ITU’s 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) was initially called the “Common Heritage” resolution. What will be the impact of...

When Internet telephony came on the scene in the 1990s, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not give it a regulatory classification. Today that is still the case. From...

With a population of more than 1 billion people, India is one of the world’s biggest and most dynamic broadcast markets. The country continues to expand the size of its...

Bandwidth management has become a key issue for operators and customers alike. The question is just how far can the technology go in improving efficiency, and are we about to...

In April, we reported on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) suspension of the conditional waiver of license conditions it had granted in 2011 to ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) operator LightSquared...

Finding its next generation of engineers has long been a critical issue for the aerospace industry. Via Satellite investigates efforts to expand aerospace employment opportunities in the United States, and...

[Satellite TODAY 06-29-12] Hughes Network Systems has successfully demonstrated wireless 4G-LTE transmissions over satellite backhaul at download speeds of over 10 Mbps and upload speeds of 786 Kbps, including video...

[Satellite TODAY 06-29-12] Shaw Communications reported a $248 million profit in its 2012 fiscal third quarter – a 22 percent increase compared to the same period last year, the Canadian...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12]  MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has acquired Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for $875 million in an immediately accretive transaction, MDA announced June 27.    The acquisition transforms MDA into a...

[Satellite TODAY 06-28-12] Thailand’s national regulatory board has awarded Thaicom a license that will allow the private satellite operator to start selling bandwidth for its Thaicom 7 satellite after it...