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AsiaSat's good result soured by sluggish US economy
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd (AsiaSat) reported promising figures for its final results for the year ended December 31, 2000 – but the lagging US economy seems to be taking...
MTV plans triple channel launch in Poland
MTV and UPC Polska are preparing to launch three new digital music channels in Poland next month via UPC Direct’s satellite platform. The new channels to be aired on the...
Premiere World gets closer to takeover by BskyB
The future of Germany’s pay-TV market might lie in the hands of BSkyB. There is growing speculation in the German media industry about the consequences of a clause which is...
India takes slow steps towards DTH
Radhakrishna Rao, Interspace’s correspondent in Bangalore, India, delivers a timely overview of the current prospects for DTH India is not a newcomer to the area of direct satellite broadcasting technology....
Mixed forecasts on UK digital take up
Two reports on UK digital TV offer mixed views of future take up. One somewhat pessimistic report from Optimedia suggests that digital take-up in the UK is about to dramatically...
EchoStar adds 500,000 subs
EchoStar Communications added around 495,000 new subscribers to its DISH Network DTH television service during the fourth quarter of 2000, a 16 per cent increase on Q4 1999. It ended...
Transponder Monitor
Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity Compiled by Mike Fallon D=Digital A=Analogue 68.5°E: PAS-4 & 7 A Simaye Azadi Iranian National TV has launched on 11170MHz horizontal in clear...
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BSkyB’s chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein, speaking at the Financial Times broadcasting conference, accused the UK government’s policymakers of “a deliberate unwillingness to understand what the digital satellite proposition is...
Common Ground: Adam Smith In Space
by Clayton Mowry The 18th century author of The Wealth of Nations probably never thought about space or satellites in orbit. Yet Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand of...
Web Exclusive: Broadband in Japan
Delivering Content To The Edge Of The Net According to Japan’s Telecommunications White Paper 2000, Internet end-users in Japan reached 27 million at the end of 1999 and end-user subscriber...