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IRDETO CLINCHES DEALS IN INDIA AND MACAO

Content protection and management company Irdeto Access has landed two contracts in Asia – one for conditional access in Macao and the other for content protection in India. Irdeto signed...

EUROPEAN SATELLITE BUILDERS BEAT US RIVALS

Last year marked the first occasion when European communications satellite manufacturers managed to secure a marginally larger market share than their US counterparts in terms of the number of spacecraft...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

  Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike FallonKey Key: D – Digital A – Analogue All times in UTC unless otherwise stated. SR – Symbol Rate...

NEWS BYTES...

CNN is understood to be planning to open another African news bureaux in addition to its existing activity in Johannesburg, Cairo and Nairobi. Lagos, Nigeria is expected to be the...

Cameroon Unveils TV Service

As a follow-up to the Franco-African summit in Yaounde, Cameroon’s communication minister Jacques Fame Ndongo presided over the inauguration of satellite broadcasts by the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV). The...

Einstein Gets Up And Running

Einstein.tv, the science and technology TV-web channel, has gone live on Sky Digital (channel 576) and on the Internet. Marking the birth of the new station, the LG Electronics sponsored...

Shayman Travels Path To Indian Success

Shayman ACeS Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Shayman Telecom and AceS International, have been given a letter of intent from the Indian government saying it will licence ACeS as...

EADS To Absorb Astrium Launcher Interests

EADS (European Aviation, Defence and Space) Launch Vehicles, the former Aerospatiale unit under Phillippe Couillard based in Les Mureaux near Paris, is in the process of implementing the reorganisation of...