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Competition has intensified this past week with offers reaching the $1 billion mark for DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable or Yahoo to purchase Hulu

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) is one of the most talked about operators on the planet, and has been on an aggressive growth curve. The company sees Africa as an important part of the equation as it looks to diversify its revenue base. In April this year, ABS appointed Felix Damiba, as its new managing director for Africa.

Within five years, North America is expected to lose its status as the number one region for in-flight entertainment (IFE) content to the rapidly expanding Asia-Pacific region.

Monitoring global air traffic is not an easy task, but in the wake of SES’s recent launch of the first space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) system, this could soon change.

By 2017, pay-TV households across the globe are expected to reach over one billion — a sharp increase over the 850 million projected before the end of 2013, said Michelle Abraham

High Throughput Satellites have been making headlines in the mainstream media recently and are positioned to be a real “game changer” serving the military and end users, said David Hartshorn, secretary general of GVF during a HTS roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C.

As satellite communications technologies evolve and new applications become available for the intelligence community, military and private sector business, new operational and engineering challenges also emerge in both the space segment and a range of ground segment environments.

As several industry leaders including Intelsat, Hughes and O3b Networks are in the process of launching new High Throughput Satellites (HTS), a specialized roundtable discussion on HTS began May 21 in Washington, D.C., with several panelists who indicated HTS might have far reaching implications for the global market place.

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Norsat’s President and CEO Amiee Chan  Courtesy of Norsat  [Satellite TODAY 05-20-13] An expanded product line and greater international focus are key points of Canadian-based Norsat International’s plan to bounce back...