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Perseus Acquires MTN

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) said merchant bank and private equity fund management company Perseus LLC completed its acquisition of MTN. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “[Throughout] the...

BSkyB Makes Key Upgrades For Parents

The U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB (Sky) is significantly enhancing the parental controls to its services. The new upgrades will enable parents to restrict access to all channels, or even...

Frontier, EchoStar Form Strategic Alliance

Frontier Communications and EchoStar Communications Corp. formed a strategic alliance to provide EchoStar’s Dish Network direct-to-home satellite televisions service to Frontier customers nationwide. Frontier will offer the service as part...

Russian Express-AM2 Successfully Launched

The Russian Satellite Communications Co. said the Russian Express-AM2 was successfully launched March 29 on a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. GMT. In-orbit testing...