Focus: Telecom

[Via Satellite 06-05-2015] Iridium has signed a strategic partnership with Seoul, South Korea-based Arion Communication to distribute Iridium mobile satellite communications services and products in South Korea. Arion, a specialist...

[Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Airbus Defence and Space, having signed key partnerships with several French Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), aims to establish a major presence in the growing market of...

[Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Singapore-based ST Teleport has formed a strategic partnership with Telespazio, a 67/33 Finmeccanica/Thales joint venture, to jointly establish a global Ku-band communications network for Maritime Oil and...

[Via Satellite 06-04-2015] SATMED, the medical component of Luxembourg’s emergency.lu recovery platform, has been deployed at the Maternité Hospital in Ahozonnoude, Benin to improve childbirth healthcare. The eHealth platform uses...

[Via Satellite 06-01-2015] Iridium Communications has completed the first successful integration of the Aireon payload on an Iridium Next satellite. This is a key technical milestone toward the first launch...

[Via Satellite 06-02-2015] Inmarsat and Gilat Satellite Networks have partnered on a wholesale, fully managed high-speed satellite broadband service delivered through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band network and Gilat’s SkyEdge 2-c...

[Via Satellite 06-02-2015] MTN Communications has signed agreements for maritime communications services with six customers. Four of the customers — Crystal Cruises, Moana Cruises, Paul Gauguin Cruises and Phoenix Reisen...

[Via Satellite 06-01-2015] Avanti Communications has signed a new contract with Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd (TTCL), for satellite broadband via the operator’s Hylas 2 satellite. The contract will expand TTCL’s...

[Via Satellite 05-27-2015] Harris CapRock has received a contract from Hess Corporation, a top global independent energy company, to provide a turnkey, integrated telecommunications solution to support the company’s Stampede...

[Via Satellite 05-21-2015] Following an upper management shakeup in the first quarter in which Erez Antebi decided to step down as CEO at Gilat Satellite Systems, the new Interim CEO...