Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Norsat International Inc. is set to launch its new miniaturized Ku-band block up-converter (BUC), the company announced Oct. 7.     The product is packaged in a 3-kilogram […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Tesacom, Stratos Global and Addvalue Communications joined forces to deploy a 1,200-site Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) mobile satellite network to support the first round of Brazil’s […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. reported revenues of 2.4 million Canadian dollars ($2.2 million) for its third quarter ending Aug. 31, 2008 and a net income of 780,622 […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] DigitalGlobe has signed a multi-year contract with Microsoft Corp. to provide the software giant’s Virtual Earth program with DigitalGlobe satellite and aerial imagery, the companies announced Oct. […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] ViaSat Inc. is nearly doubling the coverage area for its mobile broadband network by expanding to the North Pacific Ocean region, the company announced Oct. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Solaris Mobile submitted its S-Band spectrum application for harmonized European Union mobile services to the European Commission, the company said Oct. 7. The European Commission launched a […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Serbia Broadband, the largest pay-TV operator in Serbia, is hoping to launch DTH services in other Eastern European markets such as Bosnia and Croatia in the near […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] EMS Satcom unveiled a new high-gain antenna, the AMT-700, EMS announced Oct. 6.     The AMT-700 is designed to maximize data throughput and system capacity of its […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] ViaSat Inc. and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) have teamed up to offer a broadband IP networking and entertainment system for business aircraft, ViaSat announced Oct 6.     The […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Eutelsat is making progress with its consumer satellite broadband service in Spain.     The operator said Oct. 3. that Telecable is initiating deployment of the Tooway satellite […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Arianespace and Eutelsat Communications confirmed the upcoming launch of Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 9 and W2M Ku-band satellites will take place in the last week of November.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] GeoEye Inc. has appointed Jeanine Montgomery vice president of accounting and corporate controller, the company announced Oct. 3.     Montgomery will manage all accounting operations, regulatory reporting […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] Tracking Corp., an alarm notification systems provider, has released a new version of its firmware for the mobile resource management (MRM) that supports satellite communication to back-end […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has standardized on NX and Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM for product design, simulation and product data management, a Siemens announcement stated Oct. […]

[Satellite News 10-02-08] ViaSat-1, scheduled to be launched in 2011, will increase satellite broadband capacity ten-fold in the United States, ViaSat Senior Vice President Tom Moore said.     “When you […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) completed its network of nine regionally managed Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroups (SMART) enabling interoperable communications among public safety organizations across the country […]

[Satellite Today 10-02-08] SES Astra signed a framework contract through its affiliate Astra Broadband Services with TeleCable, a Spanish cable operator, to market satellite-based two-way broadband service, SES Astra announced […]

[Satellite News 10-02-08] According to ViaSat Senior Vice President Tom Moore, if you combine all of the satellite broadband capacity in the United States today, the total will not add […]

Mobile satellite service (MSS) providers based their original business plans on providing ubiquitous voice services to the masses when cell phone service was in its infancy. Investors poured billions into […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] The International Institute of Space Commerce (IISC) will officially open Oct. 4 at the International Business School on the Isle of Man, IISC announced Oct. 1.      […]

Licensing satellite terminals remains a widely misunderstood topic often surrounded by confusion and myth. But it is not the maze it is made out to be. Since the licensing authority […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] Hughes Network Systems has rolled out a new broadband backup service plans for small- and medium-sized businesses, providing automatic satellite backup in the event of a landline […]

Hurricane Gustav’s track through the Gulf of Mexico and across the U.S. Gulf Coast revived bad memories of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it brought in 2005. Thankfully, Gustav inflicted […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] Spacenet has teamed with Globecomm to support Spacenet’s expansion of services to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Spacenet announced Oct. 1.      Spacenet will offer custom […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), received a follow-on DVB-S2 order from an unnamed company, IDC announced Oct. 1.     IDC will provide SFX 3104-L model dual DVB-S2 tuners […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] WildBlue has selected DataPath Inc. to provide long-term operations and maintenance services to WildBlue’s Earth stations, the company announced Oct. 1.      DataPath’s technical services will support […]

Last month, we reviewed the preliminary "Master Contribution and Support" agreement by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which has invested broadly in the mobile satellite service (MSS) sector to acquire […]

European satellite operators had their summer plans cut short when the European Commission in early August issued the structure for selecting mobile satellite service (MSS) systems in the 2 GHz […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] C-Com Satellite Systems signed an agreement with Movilsatcol, a distributor based in Colombia, to resell C-Com’s manufactured iNetVu Mobile antenna systems in South America, C-com announced Oct. […]

Satellite Today News Editor Jeffrey Hill asks: Will DigitalGlobe, a satellite imaging company who filed paperwork in April to sell stock on the New York Stock Exchange go public considering […]