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The past 18 months have been eventful for Mexican operator Satélites Mexicanos (Satmex). EchoStar Satellite Services made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Satmex in the early part of 2010. Satmex...

The satellite capacity situation in Latin America is becoming much more difficult to manage for both satellite operators and capacity buyers. Werner Schuler, CEO of Media Networks Latin America (MNLA), a company...

Last year was a particularly important year for FSS operators as a number of important strategic Ka-band investments were made. Over the past 18 months, 17 FSS operators invested in Ka-band,...

The Latin American mobile market will see 100 percent penetration by the end of the first quarter of 2011 despite the fact that 30 percent of the region’s population will...

On May 26, Venezuelan Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries Minister Ricardo Menendez announced that the Venezuelan government had reached an agreement with the Chinese government to build a second geostationary...

International data and video solutions provider Global Crossing uses an integrated global IP-based network that includes offerings such as collaboration, broadcast and media services. Global Crossing also acquires satellite capacity...

Telesat’s new Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 satellite, which was only launched last week, suffered an anomaly that prevented the satellite’s north solar array to fully deploy. The south solar...

SES World Skies signed three capacity deals with IP, Ethernet, data center and video solutions provider Global Crossing, which will increase its corporate network capacity with an additional 10 MHz...

Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a Latin American military...

BSM Technologies, a provider of remote monitoring, fleet management, fleet diagnostics and automated vehicle security systems, has extended its existing reseller agreement with EMS Global Tracking, BSM announced.     EMS...