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FCC's Bond Obligation Spurs Debate

The new bond requirement for a geostationary (GSO) satellite license is likely to discourage startups from obtaining licenses, warned Raul Rodriguez, a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of...

MSV Files ATC Application With the FCC

Reston, Va.-based Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) is taking the lead in what eventually could become a trend among mobile satellite services (MSS) operating in the United States. The company filed...

Satellite Radio Officials Cite Positive Trends

By Jimmy Schaeffler Top investor relations officials from both Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] and New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] recently offered their views about why both...

Marlink Signs Up Customers

Marlink, a unit of Norway’s Telenor [Nasdaq: TELN] Satellite Services, last week announced a number of deals to provide maritime satellite communications services to customers. Gas and oil company Royal...

Satellites Help With Earthquake

In response to the earthquake in Algiers last month, France Telecom [NYSE: FTE] Mobile Satellite Communications’ subsidiary TDCom has deployed a “telecom center” in Zemouri, a town affected by the...

EMS Signs Up Inmarsat Dealers

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed distribution agreements with EMS SATCOM and an additional group of business partners for the sale of Inmarsat satellite terminals. The new business partners signed...