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In the last issue of Mobile Satellite News, Dennis Billard, vice president at Telesat Canada was quoted as citing market estimations for broadband services to reach $37 billion in revenues...

Global VSAT Forum 2000: LATIN AMERICA will be this year’s only worldwide VSAT industry meeting devoted to examination of the VSAT industry’s growth and opportunities in Latin America. The meeting...

EMS Technologies Inc. of Norcross, Ga., [LMG] has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of a Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES)/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used...

Laurel, Md.-based Cidera Inc. (formerly SkyCache Inc.) an Internet backbone, announced last week that Telenor, Norway’s leading telecom, has reached an agreement to use Cidera’s satellite-delivered Usenet News service. The...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said roaming service is now available to its subscribers between almost 30 countries in North and South America and Europe, where Globalstar gateways are in full operation....

With all indicators that the Internet will be playing a more prominent role in the future of the satellite industry, American Mobile Satellite Corp. [SKYC] announced that, effective April 24,...

A close look at the proposed, re-organized global, mobile, satellite company ICO Global Communications Inc. [ICOGF] makes it very clear that the company has its work cut out for it...

ENDING bizarre battle about German women channel TM3 and its most valuable asset, the Champions League rights, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has bought fellow shareholder Herbert Kloiber’s 34 per cent...

PRO SIEBEN MEDIA AG managed to increase both turnover and profit during the first quarter of this year. Chairman Urs Rohner said that the media company, which operates general entertainment...

SINCE its launch on March 6, Recrut Interactif, the classified job ads supertext service on TPS, has proved to be a great success with subscribers, claimed Bachir Ghalayini, Director of...