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PACE PACT WITH NET SAT AND GRADIENTE

Pace Micro Technology Americas has reached an agreement with NET SAT, Brazil’s largest satellite operator, and Gradiente, a manufacturers of electronic consumer goods in the Brazilian market, to provide 40,000...

PANAMSAT PAS-10 GEARING UP FOR MAY LAUNCH

PanAmSat Corporation says its new PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite has arrived in Kazakhstan in preparation for its May launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. PAS-10 will be sent into space...

EITB BREAKS INTO EUROPE

Basque Country-based regional channel EiTB is now reaching the whole of Europe via the Astra satellite system. The channel started test transmissions on April 23 distributing the signal of TV...

JAPANESE DEBUT FOR IRDETO ACCESS

Irdeto Access has sealed its first sale in Japan and will supply its M-Crypt DVB conditional access system to Astem Co Ltd. The Japanese company will use the Irdeto system...

SKYBRIDGE TURNS INSIDE-OUT

Two weeks ago Interspace reported that Alcatel affiliate SkyBridge had denounced reports that it was pla nning to abandon – or at least postpone – the launch of its planned...

GENERALI SOUNDS A WARNING

Generali Global’s biennial space insurance conference, held recently in Rome, tended to be a repeat of the wake-up call of two years ago in Florence. CEO Benito Pagnanelli said that...

TELPRESS AWARDS BROADBAND DEAL

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd’s subsidiary Gilat Europe has been awarded a deal to provide a broadband satellite communications network of up to 2,000 sites by Telpress SRL. Rome-based Telpress is...

IP ACTION STATIONS FOR XANTIC

Xantic, formerly Station 12 and SpecTec – which is owned by KPN of the Netherlands (65 per cent) and Australia’s Telstra (35 per cent) – has signed an agreement with...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Interspace’s in Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 68.5 degrees E PAS-4 & 7 D: The Asian version of Zee...