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Satellite-Based Digital Signage Market

By Christopher Baugh Satellite-based video distribution is, and perhaps always will be, paramount to satellite industry success. Video represents the vast majority of revenue for virtually every satellite operator worldwide....

Orbcomm Inks GPS Deal

Orbcomm, a Dulles, Va.-based satellite communications company, has signed an agreement to provide data communication services for the GPS products with GEOTrac Systems is developing for oil and transportation companies...

A&E Signs with SES Americom

New York-based A&E Television Networks has signed a long-term service agreement with SES Americom for follow-on C-band transponder capacity on AMC-11, the successor satellite to Satcom C-3. Beginning in 2004,...

Trimble To Supply GPS For Rail

Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB], a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based GPS products maker, has been chosen as the primary GPS timing supplier for Cattron-Theimeg’s ACCUSPEED locomotive radio remote control system. The system allows rail...

FCC's New Alaska Policy

The Federal Communications Commission has ended its long-standing “Alaska Bush” satellite earth station policy and instead is allowing open-entry, facilities-based telecom competition in Alaska’s rural communities. The Alaska Bush communities...

Rent-Way Selects Spacenet

Spacenet, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF], has been awarded a five-year contract by Rent-Way to provide a two-way satellite-based IP network to all of Rent-Way’s...

StarBand Unveils Faster Modem

StarBand, the struggling U.S. provider of two-way satellite broadband to residential and small office customers, has introduced a modem designed to provide peak download speeds of up to one megabit...

Sydney Race Tracked by Satellite

Satellite-based telematics operator Satamatics, in partnership with its service provider SecTrack, is supplying satellite-based location tracking technology and services to the 68 yachts taking part in the Sydney Gold Coast...

Alcatel Space To Build HOT BIRD

Alcatel Space, the satellite manufacturing arm of France’s Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has received a contract from Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat to build the HOT BIRD 7A communications satellite to replace...

Coast Guard Evaluates Fleet F55

The U.S. Coast Guard is evaluating the Fleet F55 service provided by London-based mobile satellite service company Inmarsat aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Shearwater. The evaluation follows beta testing and...