Focus: Telecom

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of August, the European Commission released a series of studies it requested from outside experts to help prepare a review of the European...

The impending merger of France’s two satellite-TV providers — Canalsat and TPS — has raised the question about which fixed satellite services (FSS) company will inherit the combined companies’ business,...

After a few frustrating years of slow launch rates due to a depressed commercial launch market as well as satellite manufacturing delays, Sea Launch is on target to perform six...

The market for set-top boxes (STB) that combine Internet Protocol (IP) and direct broadcast service functionality is growing, and Michael Arden, an analyst with ABI Research believes satellite pay-TV operators...

Some 130 years after the British government claimed the island of Tristan da Cunha as part of its empire, the South Atlantic territory is being officially welcomed to the 21st...

There have been some significant events throughout the past few months in the direct-to-home (DTH) market in Europe. A number of pay-TV operators have launched high-definition (HD) services as they...

When a corporation has multiple projects underway simultaneously, and those projects are spread out around the globe, having an advanced network in place that can disseminate a wide range of...

Even though The Boeing Company decided to shut down its high-speed broadband communications offering, Connexion by Boeing, in August, the move may have been one of the company’s strongest. Closing...

An increasing number of organizations are discovering that the only way to guarantee their communication systems stay online during times of crisis is to employ satellite backup systems to their...

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of August, the European Commission released a series of studies it requested from outside experts to help prepare a review of the European...