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A Tehran news agency has reported that Iran will launch Zohreh, its Russian-built communications satellite, within two years. The agency quoted university professor Mehran Mirshams as saying that the Zohreh...

The number of two-way broadband Internet via satellite services keeps growing, with the latest new entrant being Galaxy 2000, operated by UK-based dealer Bentley Walker. The service which was recently...

Four and a half years after the beginning of the privatisation process, the German state is set to lose its majority stake in Deutsche Telekom. After the Bonn-based company’s take...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon D = Digital A = Analog 100.5 degreesE: AsiaSat 2 D AsiaSat 2 capacity is to be used by...

The German music company Edel Music will sell its 12.1 per cent stake in VIVA to Initiatoren Drei Kapitalbeteiligung, a newly founded investment company formed by VIVA Media’s chairman Dieter...

UPC’s Polish digital DTH platform Wizja TV has started transmitting Telewizja Polska’s (TVP’s) two national channels TVP1 and TVP2. Although the move has been criticised by TVP – which was...

Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that it has now switched off the analogue broadcasting feed for its Viasat Broadcasting satellite pay-TV channels, which include TV1000 and TV1000 Cinema....

PanAmSat is to provide full-time video link services from the Americas in support of live coverage of prominent sporting and special events to the EBU, which represents 69 national broadcasters...

The BBC has secured a third transponder (#38) from Astra at 28.2 degrees East. The contract, which is for five years, will allow the broadcaster to introduce its multiple screen...

Eurosport News, the sister service of pan-European sports network Eurosport covering sports news, has become available to German households for the first time, albeit through an unconventional way of transmission....