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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...

Satellite Radio Revs Up Its Growth Engine

By Steve Blum, Tellus Venture Associates At 2.6 million subscribers, satellite radio now represents the 16th-largest radio market in the United States. That’s more listeners than the entire Minneapolis-St. Paul...

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...

At Press Time: Smaller Is Better

Satellite News has learned that Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) is calling on the U.S. government to shift its focus from large satellites that have lots of technology packed onto them...

HNS Rides The Wi-Fi Wave

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems is looking to ride the growth of Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) services by providing connectivity to retail establishments that offer the service in addition to their...

The Money Is There

The profit potential of offering a Wi-Fi hot spot is substantial. If a retailer charges an average of $6 per use, beginning with three users a day in the first...