Focus: Telecom

Fred Pope comes from an economics background and says he entered the satellite sector “by accident.” But as CEO of Satcom Resources, a business that relies in large part on...

Even though the satellite sector was touted as recession-proof, many companies are glad to put a difficult year behind them. And while there is no guarantee that 2010 will be...

What is broadband? Don’t be so quick to answer. After all, we use the term regularly without ever stopping to think about its precise meaning. Is broadband high-speed Internet, advanced...

Given their scarcity and value, orbital locations and the radiofrequency spectrum always have been a matter of contention among satellite market players. In the late 1990s, when, over the course...

The WiMax sector’s overall efforts were rebuffed at the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference, but with some governments around the globe continuing to support WiMax and international mobile telecommunications (IMT) players...

According to Andrea Maleter, technical director, Futron, “There is a fair amount of private equity money still going into (Latin America’s) satellite business. Latin American telecoms, in general, has seen...

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] U.S. Congress has extended government indemnification of U.S. commercial launches for another three years, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Dec. 24.     The indemnification regime, set...

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] WorldSpace’s Indian operation will close down at the end of this year, the operator announced late last week.     WorldSpace said the potential buyer of much of...

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Thales Alenia Space and Orbital Sciences won contracts to build a new geosynchronous communications satellite contract for OverHorizon, the companies announced Dec. 23.     Both Thales Alenia...

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Satellite service provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has reached a legal settlement with mobile company Sybase 365 over patent infringement lawsuits filed by TCS against Mobile 365 in...