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ASTRO COO Looks To Ride PVR Growth

Astro All Asia Networks (ASTRO) intends to amass around 2.5 million satellite TV subscribers in Malaysia during the next four to five years. The DTH (direct-to-home) satellite operator, which currently...

GPS Technology Aids School-Bus Safety

The San Francisco Unified School District recently upgraded its transportation security with the help of San Diego, Calif.-based Satellite Security Systems (S3). S3, a provider of asset tracking and control...

The Satellite News Financial Ticker

Week of July 23-29, 2004 PercentageChange Symbol July 29 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.57 4.7 (20.7) (11.3) (34.0) ASIASAT...

DBS Focuses On Washington

Congress is giving significant attention to multichannel video services, and its actions have the potential to affect the competitive balance between satellite and cable TV operators. Bills to reauthorize the...

Mobile Market Spurs Entrepreneurs

A positive sign for any industry is when entrepreneurial ventures with promise attract strong management teams and financing. That combination of factors is in place at McLean, Va.-based Raysat, a...

At Press Time: New China Spy Charges

At deadline, Satellite News learned a grand jury in Camden, N.J., indicted the president of Universal Technologies Inc. and his wife, charging them with 46 counts, including an allegation that...

Congress Short-Changes Space-Based Systems

By Paul Dykewicz, Access Intelligence LLC The whopping federal budget deficits that the U.S. government has been compiling in large part to fund major military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan...

SBR Causes 'Confusion' In Congress

According to an executive from one of the United States’ top defense contractors, the Pentagon’s failed advocacy for the Space Based Radar (SBR) satellite program on Capitol Hill was due,...

Sirius Makes Progress In XM's Shadow

By Paul Dykewicz Sirius Satellite Radio is the Rodney Dangerfield of satellite broadcasting. The company gets little or no respect, just as the famous American comedian humorously laments about himself...