Focus: Telecom

[Satellite News 10-09-08] Premiere, Germany’s leading satellite pay-TV operator, is in a state of flux, mired in a scandal over bloated subscriber figures which already has claimed the company’s CFO...

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has seen another top executive resign as the fallout over inflated subscriber figures continued.     Oliver Kaltner, chief marketing and sales officer,...

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Intelsat has appointed Michael McDonnell CFO and executive vice president, the company announced Oct. 9.     McDonnell comes to Intelsat from MCG Capital Corp., a publicly-held commercial...

[Satellite News 10-08-08] Advancements on DigitalGlobe’s next-generation imagery satellite, WorldView-2, will allow the company to deliver the detailed imagery that is in high demand from its U.S. government customers, especially...

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Globalstar Inc. has launched a satellite-based remote automated utility meter reading interface (MRI) solution designed to communicate with meters located in areas not served by the traditional...

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Harris Corp. received an order to provide systems integration and information technology services to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Harris announced Oct. 8.     NGA is...

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Thaicom’s satellite broadband plans in New Zealand have been boosted by the take-up of a new retail broadband package, which is “significantly” increasing subscriber numbers, Thaicom said...

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] SES Astra’s Astra 1M satellite will be launched aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 31, the company said Oct. 8.    ...

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Spacenet Inc. has expanded coverage for its commercial grade Connexstar service to include select countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the company announced Oct. 8....

[Satellite News 10-07-08] Tesacom, Stratos Global and Addvalue Communications delivered the largest single contract for the purchase of Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) services to Brazilian regional elections in...