Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today 05-27-09] Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) subsidiary Mabuhay Satellite Corp. dropped its offer to buy $27.5 million worth of preferred shares of ProtoStar, PLDT announced in a...

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] Two California residents, Tina Walker and Christopher Bayless, have filed a class action lawsuit against HughesNet in Oakland, alleging that the company falsely advertised its connectivity speeds...

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] TerreStar Europe filed a lawsuit in a Luxembourg high court against the European Commission (EC) seeking the annulment of the EC’s decision to select Inmarsat and Solaris...

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] Blaze Streaming Media, a live video production service, has partnered with TodoCast, a portable live satellite Web-broadcasting service, to maximize revenues from original live productions, Blaze Streaming...

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Arianespace successfully launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian governmental satellite, the company announced May 22.     Arianespace said that the satellite was accurately placed on the...

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Avanti Communications won a $345,000 contribution from the European Space Agency (ESA) for work on a preliminary design review of the Hercules satellite system, the company announced...

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Integral Systems’ corporate headquarters was relocated from Lanham, Md., to Columbia, Md., the company announced May 22.     As a result of the move, Integral gained an...

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Thomson, a supplier of set-top boxes to satellite pay-TV operators worldwide, hopes to reach an agreement in terms of debt restructuring by the middle of June, the...

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Comtech EF Data unveiled its new CDM-740 Satellite Modem – a high performance architecture featuring an integrated DVB-S/S2 receiver and a turbo product-coding Single Carrier Per Channel...

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] RRsat Global Communications has started operating a new Multi Channels Per Carrier (MCPC) platform on Telesat’s Telstar 11N satellite located at 37.5 degrees West, RRsat announced May...