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Canada’s parliament is holding hearings this month to review whether to ease its foreign ownership restrictions in the telecommunications sector. Canadian law requires telecom companies — wireline, wireless and satellite...

The malfunction of a Russian Proton rocket launch last November is unlikely to affect Sea Launch’s procedures and launch schedule, according to a Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB). Sea Launch’s...

The $30 million purchase of Maritime Telecommunications Networks (MTN), a Miramir, Fla.-based provider of offshore satellite communication services, offers “very good value” and strong growth potential, said David Moross, chairman...

By Roger Rusch Planning for 2003 requires an assessment of what the future holds. While prognostication is an inexact science, we can extrapolate certain trends. Present conditions and “external forces”...

Boeing’s [BA] Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Connexion by Boeing units last week successfully demonstrated a number of enhancements to the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The enhancements are intended...

The U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS) industry has had a marked advantage over cable since it was launched in 1994. The DBS providers emerged to deliver better pictures at a...

Any bid Bell giant SBC Communications [SBC] may be exploring to buy U.S. satellite TV provider DirecTV most likely will not reach fruition, Wall Street analysts predicted. Lehman Brothers and...

Raytheon [RTN] will provide an integrated electronics suite (IES) for the Italian Navy’s multi-purpose vessel program under a foreign military award of $31.8 million equipping the Italian government with the...

African satellite services provider GS Telecom has installed a high-rise teleport in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, to provide telecommunications services throughout the country. GS Telecom is installing a ViaSat...

Diebold [DBD] has contracted with Spacenet, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF], to become an authorized channel partner of Spacenet’s Connexstar business-grade satellite broadband service. As a...