Focus: Telecom

[Via Satellite 11-25-13] O3b Networks moves a step closer to service launch for its customers with the formal opening of its gateway (satellite ground station) in preparation for its Launch...

[Via Satellite 11-25-13] Spain’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) has chosen to use Globalstar’s Spot Satellite GPS Messenger and Spot Connect devices for in-field communications for personnel who are operating in...

[Via Satellite 11-25-13] Measat and Sat Space Africa have entered a three-year agreement for capacity on AfricaSat 1a. The capacity will be deployed to connect end users in Africa with...

[Via Satellite 11-25-13] ViaSat and Harris Corp have been boosted by a key breakthrough in the European milsatcom market. The KOR 24 Small Tactical Terminal, a co-development of the two...

[Via Satellite 11-22-13] Poste Italiane CEO Massimo Sarmi and Eutelsat chairman and CEO Michel de Rosen, signed an agreement to commercialize the Tooway satellite broadband service. According to data from...

[Via Satellite 11-22-13] Inmarsat appointed Station711, the MSS arm of RRsat Global Communications Network, as a Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Distribution Partner. The new distribution agreement expands Station711’s longstanding...

[Via Satellite 11-21-13] Global Eagle Entertainment is looking at the possibility of a significant spike in revenues, possibly more than 10 percent annually, after the recent announcement that its Wi-Fi...

[Via Satellite 11-21-13] Eutelsat and CaribSat, an Internet service provider for the French West Indies and French Guiana, signed a distribution agreement for the IP Easy satellite broadband service provided...

[Via Satellite 11-20-13] The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is playing a key role in bringing communications to some of the worst hit areas of the Philippines in the wake of...

[Via Satellite 11-20-13] The European Parliament has approved the financing and governance of two European satellite navigation programs: Galileo and EGNOS, from 2014 to 2020. Their total budget of 7...