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There is little doubt India has the potential to be a huge market for satellite services — a major growth opportunity for numerous operators looking to boost their positions in […]

BSkyB [BSY] has signaled its intention to be much more of a player in the lower-end segment of the U.K. digital television market. It will launch a Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite […]

Week of June 11 – 17, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol June 17 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.82 7.1 6.4 […]

By Paul Dykewicz, Senior Analyst/Senior Editor The chance to sell New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] for a whopping $956 million to affiliates of the Blackstone Group last week was too […]

Tachyon Networks is joining in the celebration of graduating high-school students by donating the company’s bandwidth and remote-access satellite equipment to let their parents serving in the military in Iraq […]

By D.K. Sachdev, SpaceTel Consultancy Even a cursory look at the overall financial performance of the satellite industry during the last few years makes it obvious that the future for […]

New Skies Satellites [NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg fully expects the company’s management team to remain in place after the company’s announcement of its sale last week. His comments came in […]

Ya.com Internet Factory’s CEO believes his company’s foray into the satellite broadband market in Spain is crucial if it wants to put pressure on rival Telefonica in its home market. […]

Week of June 4 – 10, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol June 10 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.91 14.4 4.4 […]

The need for 100,000 humanitarian- and reconstruction-aid workers worldwide to manage and communicate information and data quickly from remote parts of the world spurred a former refugee coordinator to start […]

Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, Cablevision System’s [CVC] capacity-constrained satellite TV division, increased its in-orbit capabilities last week by agreeing to lease 16 transponders during the next 10 years from Princeton, […]

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) is looking to begin an important new chapter in its more-than-10-year-old relationship with DirecTV by agreeing to a new distribution agreement between the organizations. […]

LONG BEACH, Calif.–Strong sales of transponders to government and military customers, coupled with sustained growth at satellite broadcasting companies, appear to be the current bright spots, industry officials at a […]

By Paul Dykewicz, Senior Analyst/Senior Editor The successful launch of SES Americom’s Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built AMC-11 satellite aboard an Atlas IIAS launch vehicle May 19 is the latest example of […]

A recent partnership between Intelsat and a top Formula One racing team are using satellite technology to transmit and analyze mission-critical data during part of this year’s Formula One season […]

By Maury Mechanick, White & Case About a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a new satellite-licensing regime. In a fairly bold stroke, the FCC implemented […]

Intelsat reached a key agreement to let it tap the potentially lucrative U.K. broadband market. The company’s deal calls for it to forge a partnership with BT Broadcast Services (BTBS), […]

Pay-TV operators across the Middle East believe the region could prove to be a hotbed for such services during the next few years. With more than 20 Arab nations inhabited […]

Week of May 28-June 3, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol June 3 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.63 (6.9) (7.9) (34.3) […]

People ORBITAL SCIENCES CORP. Names Key Executives Orbital Sciences Corp. appointed Brent Collins senior vice president and deputy general manager for operations in the Launch Systems Group. In this position, […]

The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is a worldwide partnership of public, private and non-governmental organizations enabling knowledge sharing, dialogue training and consultations on development topics to the developing world. […]

How does a company streamline its administrative duties, increase its efficiency for financial transactions and keep the workforce trained throughout its remote locations with a minimal investment in an infrastructure […]

Strategic partnerships are key in today’s business world. In cases regarding upgrades to a company’s infrastructure, solid partnerships are vital. Having spoken to many end users who have incorporated satellite, […]

AsiaSat is a major player in the Asian satellite and communications landscape. The operator plays a key role in developing the growing broadcast and broadband markets in the region. It […]

Week of May 21-27, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol May 27 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.85 3.4 (10.2) (26.6) (22.3) […]

An announcement about the sale of global satellite operator New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] to a private- equity firm appears to be only weeks away, and it could be followed […]

Officials at The Boeing Co. [BA] acknowledge the Superbird-6 satellite, built by its El Segundo, Calif.-based satellite-manufacturing team for Tokyo-based Space Communications Corp., may have lost at least a full […]

By Paul Dykewicz, Senior Analyst/Senior Editor The U.S. government could be in the unusual position of picking which American-based, remote-sensing company vying for the second — and apparently last — […]

Al and Ed’s Autosound, a mobile electronics and communications retailer with 29 stores in Southern California, has included two new satellite products in its “hot items” list for consumers to […]

By Mark R. Chartrand The quip “it is hard to predict, especially the future” has been attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra, movie kingpin Samuel Goldwyn and Danish physicist Niels […]