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The regional Bell operating companies’ latest strategy for providing video service appears to be teaming with direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service providers. Both SBC [NYSE: SBC] and Qwest [NYSE: Q]...

By Raul R. Rodriguez & Philip A. Bonomo The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently completed the most sweeping reform of its space station licensing process in more than two decades....

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....

By Jimmy Schaeffler Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] and its satellite TV unit DirecTV are proving the validity of their newest subscriber-based business model that focuses on better, rather than more,...

Hamilton, Bermuda-based satellite operator Intelsat’s 44 percent drop in net income for the second quarter, compared with the same quarter a year ago, highlights the plight of fixed satellite service...

Garmin International, a unit of Garmin Ltd. [Nasdaq: GRMN], is looking to strengthen its already formidable position in the general aviation GPS market through its proposed acquisition of UPS Aviation...

The much talked about launch alliance among France’s Arianespace, U.S.-based Boeing Launch Services (BLS), and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was formalized July 27 with the signing of an agreement. Under...

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, 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...

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...