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Telenor Satellite Services is extending its offer for customers to try out its wireless packet data satellite service–Regional Broadband Global Area Network (Regional BGAN). Telenor is offering 50 free megabytes […]

Week of Feb. 21 – 27, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Feb. 27 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.57 (0.6) (10.3) […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the near term, volatility in launch insurance and in-orbit coverage will continue as satellite manufacturers and launch services providers struggle to improve their fleets of satellites […]

Ramu Potarazu, president and chief operating officer of Intelsat Global Service, will be promoted to president and COO of the parent company Intelsat Ltd. this month, the company announced. Potarazu […]

Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LOR], provided in-orbit capacity to assist Discovery Health Network in presenting a live broadcast from inside maternity wards of hospitals in […]

The continent of Africa offers some strong growth opportunities for satellite and mobile telecom operators, according to a study by CIT-PriMetrica. CIT-PriMetrica’s “Yearbook of African Telecommunications for 2003” identifies growth […]

Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] is providing broadband satellite communications equipment and services to support an important new joint venture in Mexico between GlobalSat and Intelsat Global Service. GlobalSat is teaming […]

The European Space Agency has signed contracts with the ELV Co. to complete the development phase of the Vega European small launcher program and with FiatAvio to develop the P80 […]

GlobeCast, a satellite broadcast subsidiary of France Telecom [FTE], has extended its fiber network to Asia with the inauguration of a 45-Mbps transpacific fiber trunk between Singapore and Los Angeles, […]

Merrill Lynch is boosting estimates for EchoStar Communications’ [DISH] fourth-quarter subscriber growth by 15,000 due to lower subscriber churn than anticipated. The change brings subscriber estimates for the direct broadcast […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During these times of increased use of commercial satellite equipment and services by the U.S. military, companies looking to do business with the Department of Defense (DoD) […]

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat is planning to seek permission from the European Commission to forego an initial public stock offering (IPO) that the company otherwise would need to complete by […]

By W.L. Pritchard & Co. Commercial satellite operators plan significant expansion of Ka-band satellite capacity during the next three years, with some 20 satellites under construction. The first steps in […]

Redmond, Wash.-based Advanced Digital Information Corp. [ADIC], a provider of storage management software, is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) […]

By Marc A. De Simone Satellite industry executives likely remember the increased demand on their services and the strain on their employees immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The troubled economy in Latin America has not deterred a number of satellite operators in that marketplace from making strategic plans to invest heavily to grow their services […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Large satellite operators looking for merger partners are unlikely to forge deals anytime soon. For example, Eutelsat’s shareholders appear content to wait until valuations rise before considering the […]

Canadian firm Norsat International [Nasdaq: NSAT] (Burnaby, British Columbia) has deployed three Norsat NewsLink portable satellite terminals in Kuwait. The units, two of which were purchased by New York City-based […]

Global Positioning System servicesprovider FleetBoss Global Positioning Solutions has been granted use and ownership of the slogan, “We Are GPS,” by the U.S. Patent Office. GPS technology is used in […]

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] announced a series of deals in conjunction with the SATELLITE 2003 conference this past week in Washington, D.C. Among the announcements, EMS hardware will be part […]

High-definition broadcaster HDNet has selected PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] to provide satellite delivery of its high-definition television (HDTV) content to its cable and direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers throughout North America. […]

SAT-TEL [Toronto: SAJ] and IROC Systems [Toronto: IRC] have received shareholder approval to merge the two companies based in Red Deer, Alberta. Financial terms were not disclosed. SAT-TEL specializes in […]

Fisher Pathways, a provider of video and data connectivity and distribution, and DWJ Television, which produces broadcast communications services, have signed an agreement under which Pathways will provide studio services, […]

By Robert N. Wold   There have been differing opinions as to when commercial satellite news gathering-using transportable uplinks-really began. The first live, remote, transportable-uplinked, satellite-relayed content was indeed "news […]

by Armand Musey Shortly after the beginning of the year, we raised our industry rating on the satellite industry to marketweight from underweight. We believe 2002 was a particularly tough […]

By Peter J. Brown Recovery. Restoration. Continuity. These are not new buzzwords. They have taken on new meaning, however, as a result of the intensified planning and preparation underway throughout […]

Innovation fueled by pure entrepreneurial fervor. Those two elements have literally created a new market segment for the commercial satellite industry. And now that it is here, hundreds of thousands […]

By James Careless They are the "ends of the earth" as far as the satellite ground station business is concerned: those regional outposts in remote, often extreme conditions. Yet these […]

by Gerry Oberst Can Europe develop a unified satellite policy? European countries more or less coordinate satellite spectrum policies through the European Conference of Post and Telecoms Administrations (CEPT). The […]

The satellite industry needs to make significant changes to heighten its future competitiveness, warned Hugh Panero, XM Satellite Radio‘s [Nasdaq: XMSR] president and CEO. The industry should dedicate itself to […]