Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 09-07-10] Global telecoms, media and IT adviser Analysys Mason released a report Sept. 7 urging operators to reconsider plans for fiber to the home (FTTH) if they are...

[Satellite News 09-06-10] Not even half a year ago, Canadian satellite company Com Dev International was projecting 10 percent revenue growth by the end of 2010. By June, the company...

[Satellite News 08-31-10] The U.S. Military’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency 1 (AEHF 1) satellite, which experienced a main engine shut down shortly after its initial orbit burn on Aug. 30,...

[Satellite News 08-30-10] The Obama administration has completed a Category 7 U.S. Munitions List review of tanks and military vehicles, which determined that about 74 percent of the 12,000 military...

[Satellite News 08-26-10] For the past two years, 3-D broadcast technology for the average consumer was mostly discussed in the future tense, providing satellite broadcasters and developers with a promising...

[Satellite News 08-24-10] In August alone, Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems has seen a flurry of commercial and military satellite activity, winning over $1 billion in new satellite manufacturing contracts,...

[Satellite News 08-24-10] While the U.S. paid TV industry, as a whole, lost 216,000 customers in the second quarter of 2010, satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network added about 81,000...

The third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) military communications satellite, WGS-3, has entered service for the U.S. Air Force, completing the military’s Block 1 constellation, designed to deliver improved broadband communications...

In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation...

[Satellite News 08-10-10] Iridium Communications saw its billable subscriber base grow 16.8 percent to about 383,000 in its 2010 second quarter, with growth coming from several of its product areas,...