Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-10] TerreStar expects to begin commercial rollout of its TerreStar Genus dual-mode satellite-cellular smartphone in September, the company announced July 5.     TerraStar unveiled the smartphone and its...

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-10] Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party will launch Asia Update, a new C-band satellite TV service, next week from a transponder on an unnamed foreign-owned satellite, party deputy spokesman...

[Satellite TODAY 07-05-10] DirecTV and its 3-D technology partner, Panasonic, have launched three new 3-D channels on DirecTV’s pay-TV platform, the companies announced July 2.     One of the channels,...

[Satellite TODAY 07-05-10] The Nilesat-201 and Rascom-QAF1R satellites have been delivered to Arianespace in French Guiana in preparation for their Aug. 3 launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced...

[Satellite TODAY 07-05-10]  Eutelsat has appointed Andrew Wallace CCO, the company announced July 2.     Wallace replaces Olivier Milliès-Lacroix, who will leave the company this month to pursue other interests...

[Satellite News 07-02-10] While China Satellite Communications Corp. (CASC) is planning to use capacity on its satellites to support a new DTH service in China, which could launch this year,...

[Satellite TODAY 07-02-10] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) signed a deal worth $16 million with The Wananchi Group to develop a DTH broadcasting service in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, IDC...

[Satellite TODAY 07-02-10]  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made recommendations to the Indian government that international companies play more of a role in the country’s DTH sector,...

The opening of CommunicAsia comes at what could be the beginning of a new era in the Asia-Pacific region. For many years, the satellite communications sector has viewed the region...

What is telecommunications? Most people will point to the Greek prefix tele, meaning “distance,” and say that telecommunications is “communications at a distance.” Dictionaries define telecommunications as the science and...