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Telenor Does Well By Doing Good

The need for 100,000 humanitarian- and reconstruction-aid workers worldwide to manage and communicate information and data quickly from remote parts of the world spurred a former refugee coordinator to start...

Rainbow DBS Adds Vital Capacity

Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, Cablevision System’s [CVC] capacity-constrained satellite TV division, increased its in-orbit capabilities last week by agreeing to lease 16 transponders during the next 10 years from Princeton,...

New Skies' Sale Was The Right Move

By Paul Dykewicz, Senior Analyst/Senior Editor The chance to sell New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] for a whopping $956 million to affiliates of the Blackstone Group last week was too...

New Skies CEO: "Business As Usual"

New Skies Satellites [NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg fully expects the company’s management team to remain in place after the company’s announcement of its sale last week. His comments came in...

DirecTV, NRTC Sacrifice Pegasus

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) is looking to begin an important new chapter in its more-than-10-year-old relationship with DirecTV by agreeing to a new distribution agreement between the organizations....