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Middle East broadcaster ART may abandon the pay-TV business… Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has confirmed to Interspace that it may quit pay-TV. While no decision has...

Key: D = Digital A = Analogue 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. Sima-yeh Moghavemat, the Iranian opposition TV channel that is licensed by the ITC in the UK,...

Globalstar successfully launched an additional four LEO satellites on November 22 on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, bringing the total number of Globalstar satellites now in space to 48 and...

Russia’s ORT International, a satellite version of Russia’s most popular channel, was commercially launched over Europe on November 29 by Telenor subsidiary Colorsat. The new channel is created especially for...

BSkyB’s director of interactive programming Steve Billinger left on November 19. Billinger denied he had been upset by the appointment of John Swingewood (from BT) as head of BSkyB’s new...

Iran is to set up a space organisation with either Chinese or Indian help, according the deputy post, telegraph and telephone minister, Mehdi Tabeshian, speaking at the second international conference...

by Stephane Chenard One of the most exciting trends in satellite broadcasting is the use of digital technology to distribute niche programming to television viewers around the world. Thanks to...

by Peter J. Brown A global transformation is under way as rural villages and remote enterprises are tapping into the global telecommunications revolution. This huge rural market, previously unserved or...

by Theresa Foley The meltdown of the mobile satellite services (MSS) sector during the summer of 1999 may turn out to be less than a total catastrophe in the months...

Satellite projects appear to figure prominently in Cyprus Telecommunications Authority’s (CYTA) strategy to move quickly beyond the confines of Cyprus, and finding the right MSS project in which to invest...