Focus: Telecom

[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] GenCom, the communications arm of Genco Energy Services (GES) signed an additional contract with SCS Networks to use iDirect technology for a private satellite network. Under the...

[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] Inmarsat-supported aid agency Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) has been required to leave an Iraqi camp where volunteers were providing education for refugee children. Kurdish police forces evacuated...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] The United States District Court for the Southern District of California has vacated the $283 million in damages originally awarded to ViaSat in its dispute with Loral...

[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] O3b Networks has selected Telecommunications Systems (TCS) as a channel partner for providing satellite services to government and commercial customers. TCS will use its contract vehicles for...

[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] EchoStar has ramped up its spending on upcoming satellite projects. Though some have experienced delays, three new satellites and a hosted payload were described as making steady...

[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] Intelsat has signed an agreement with Sonangol E.P. subsidiary MSTelcom for broadband services into and out of Angola. The oil and gas company’s multiyear contract will start...

[Via Satellite 08-07-2014] C-Com Satellite Systems, through its partner Unisat has delivered several iNetVu antenna systems in China’s southwestern Yunnan province following a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck on Aug....

[Via Satellite 08-06-2014] Nearly a quarter of RigNet’s revenue for the second quarter of the fiscal year came from the $25 million acquisition of Inmarsat’s enterprise energy business unit, which...

[Via Satellite 08-06-2014] Inmarsat has established its first office in Beijing, China as part of a larger expansion into the country. The company is the only international satellite communications operator...

[Via Satellite 08-06-2014] Orange Niger, a member of the larger Orange Group, has expanded its agreement with Intelsat for cellular backhaul services. Intelsat, through a new multiyear agreement, is providing...