Author: Staff Writer

The stock price of Hong Kong-based AsiaSat has fallen again dramatically despite the company (which is 50 per cent owned by SES/Astra) reporting improved sales and profits. “We report the...

Star TV has been granted Pakistan’s first pay-TV licence. It means Star is able to distribute its full bouquet of pay TV services to viewers in Pakistan. James Murdoch, chairman...

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported that losses almost doubled in the first half of 2000 to L302 billion from L152 billion (E78.50m) in the same period last year, despite...

The Astra 2B satellite has entered active service for operator Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) at the Luxembourg-based company’s orbital slot at 28.2 degrees East. SES said Astra 2B features...

Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has started to call itself Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) and last week relaunched its Arabic bouquet (Firstnet) with additional channels for ArabSat...

The size and mass of geostationary communications/broadcasting/broadband satellites is increasing sharply over the near term. Thuraya-1’s lift-off mass of 5,108kg might have been the world’s heaviest single payload when it...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D – Turkmen TV’s three TV channels and...

by Marc Crossman and Aileen Chen Hughes Electronics has, in the past couple of years, shown strong fundamentals due mostly to the strength of its direct broadcasting services (DBS) business,...

by Gerry Oberst Could disputes over how countries make satellite spectrum allocation decisions ripen into trade disputes? Ever since the agreement on basic telecommunications was reached through the World Trade...

by Clayton Mowry If you’ve paid any attention to telecommunications industry trends over the past few years, you already know that data will be a big part of satellites’ future....