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Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] could very well end up being the little mobile satellite company that could. In spite of a slow start and mounting criticism from the financial community, the...

Orbcomm de Mexico, the Orbital Communications Corp. [ORB] licensee for Mexico and most of Central America, has received its license from the Mexican Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes and launched...

The death of Irving Goldstein last Friday has led key industry officials to recall the substantial contributions he made to the satellite industry at critical times during its development. As...

TYSON’S CORNER, Va.–The single most important way to trim the cost of obtaining Internet services via satellite is to avoid downtime from technical glitches, said Kay Sears, vice president of...

Forcing Mobile Satellites to Provide Data Service Over the past decade the digital revolution has transformed the way we think about communications services. Telecommunications companies have converted from analog to...

The first station from Discovery Channel has appeared in the Polish Cyfra+ package. Discovery Civilisation made its debut on May 23 following pressure from subscribers anxious to be able to...

Italian public broadcaster RAI is leading a project for the launch of a multilingual and multicultural satellite TV channel for countries in the Mediterranean region. At a meeting of the...

Leading Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has registered encouraging first quarter results for 2000 thanks in part to an alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group. The financial results of the Milan-based TV...

Beta Research, the subsidiary of German media company Kirch Group responsible for the d-box technology, has started to develop the third generation of the digital set-top-box. According to Gerrit Huy,...

A rush of press releases has again greeted the latest TV audience figures from the European Media Survey, the only pan-European study covering international broadcasters. Each broadcaster is claiming to...