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By Thomas Watts The satellite industry has been waiting for Intelsat’s initial public offering (IPO) for almost three years now, since the passage of the Open-Market Reorganisation for the Betterment...

As predicted by Interspace, Modern Times Group (MTG), the Nordic pay-TV operator, has ditched Viaccess in favour of NDS for its conditional access (CA) system. MTG, through its broadcasting and...

Intelsat is set for a busy year. The satellite operator still hopes to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year. It also put in a bid to buy European...

Space Imaging Southeast Asia, an affiliate of U.S.-based Space Imaging, has begun direct tasking and data collection of high-resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The operations as well as the...

France Telecom’s Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in the Middle...

Telesat Canada on Feb. 20 experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic....

Satellite capacity will play a bigger role in Asia, particularly in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where there are fewer terrestrial alternatives for telecoms and data services, according to...

British Airways is trying out the new Connexion by Boeing’s in-flight satellite broadband service onboard one of its daily transatlantic flight between London and New York. The service is designed...

Canada has almost 32 million people and roughly 2.1 million of the country’s 11 million-plus TV households (TVHHs) receive their direct broadcast satellite (DBS) signals either from Star Choice or...

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN), a Miramar, Fla.-based provider of ship-to-shore satellite communications, is aggressively exploring its opportunities to serve customers who operate offshore oil and gas rigs. MTN traditionally has...