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By Bharadwaj Ramesh At first glance, India appears to be a promising market for deploying satellite-based rural telephony solutions. The country is vast; most of its population lives across 5,000,000...

The Federal Communications Commission’s International Bureau (IB) is developing U.S. commercial positions for the upcoming International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) being held June 9 to July 4 in...

Tiscali [Milan: TIS.MI], an independent pan-European ISP, hopes to be offering a new one-way satellite Internet access through Eutelsat’s OPENSKY platform to customers in the next month. Tiscali is partnering...

Alcatel Space CEO Pascale Sourisse is hopeful that French satellite manufacturer can secure around 25 per cent to 30 per cent of new commercial satellite orders this year, even though...

89.8 degreesE: Yamal 102 D Avtoradio has returned to the NetService package on 3565 MHz RHCP, SR 2000, FEC 3/4, APID 4200 after a short break. 80 degreesE: Express 6A...

The European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services (AEPOC) has given a cautious seal of approval to the latest European Commission (EC) review of its 1998 conditional...

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB [London: BSY.L] is within 300,000 subscribers of the magic 7 million subscriber figure. In its first quarter results, the operator said it added 150,000 net new...

Dave Ryan became the general manager of Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) at the end of February. He replaces Randy Brinkley, who is stepping down next month. The challenge for Ryan...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped the Thuraya-2 mobile communications satellite from its Boeing Satellite Systems manufacturing facility in El Segundo, Calif., to the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach,...

The U.S. commercial remote sensing industry should receive a boost from a new Bush administration policy that calls for the U.S. government to use private sector satellite imagery whenever practical....