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C-Com Taps Partners For Profit

By | October 25, 2004
Ottawa, Canada-based C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI] found in its eighth year of operation that deploying an innovative and cost-effective technology in the slowly growing satellite broadband market niche ultimately...

XM Takes $650 Million Swing

By | October 25, 2004
Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] joined the big leagues of sports-programming rights holders last week when it agreed to spend $650 million to air all the Major League Baseball...

Andrew Sharpens Focus With New Product Group

By | October 25, 2004
Orland Park, Ill.-based Andrew Corporation [ANDW], a communications systems equipment supplier, earlier this month created a product group focused exclusively on satellites and formed a second group that combines antennas...

Spotlight: Loral Skynet Pursues Telecommuters

By | October 25, 2004
Telecommuters have a new way to connect to the office through a partnership between Bedminster, N.J.-based Loral Skynet’s SkyReach Service and Remote Work Central, a provider of telecommuting and teleworking...

Coalition Urges SHVIA Re-Authorization

By | October 25, 2004
A diverse group of organizations that all benefit from the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA) jointly signed a letter urging all 100 U.S. senators to pass a House- approved...

Regulatory Wrap

By | October 25, 2004
Who’s Doing What? What To Expect Near-Term What It All Means The U.S. Defense Department (DoD) received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved to use the 2025-2110 MHz band on a...

Sirius Hits Subscriber Milestone

By | October 25, 2004
It was an encouraging but not a completely reassuring sign that Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] hit the 700,000-subscriber mark Oct. 18. The milestone suggests that the company ended third-quarter 2004...