E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-10] Qtel has rolled out the Thuraya XT mobile handset to its worldwide retail outlets, the company announced Dec. 28.     The service will be available in both...

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-10] Cable companies won a major court battle Dec. 27 when the Ohio Supreme Court issued a ruling that the state’s 5.5 percent sales tax on satellite TV...

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-10] The Indian National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) plans to launch 30 remote sensing satellites in the next 10 years, according to plans announced Dec. 28.     NRSC...

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-10] Turkey plans to send 3USAT, the nation’s first homemade communications test satellite, into orbit in September, satellite communications operator Turksat announced Dec. 28.     The satellite, under...

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-10] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the Ka-Sat satellite to orbit for Eutelsat on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, ILS announced Dec 27. ...

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-10] China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC) will launch Pakistani communications satellite Paksat-1R in August from a Chinese launch facility, Pakistani government officials announced Dec. 27.     Paksat-1R...

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-10] Enterprise voice and data services provider TelePacific Communications has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Covad Wireless, a broadband fixed wireless carrier operating in California,     TelePacific...

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-10] China’s development bank will lend Bolivia $251 million to finance the South American country’s first communications satellite, China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC) confirmed Dec. 27.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-10] TerreStar Networks and its creditors have agreed to allow EchoStar to buy $125 million of preferred stock as part of TerreStar Network’s reorganization plan out of bankruptcy,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-10] German public broadcaster ARD signed capacity lease agreements with Eutelsat and SES Astra to bring the Das Erste channel to German soldiers serving in Afghanistan, the operators...