Author: Staff Writer

by Theresa Foley When will fiber make satellites obsolete? The question has been posed for decades, and now the answer appears to be…Never! New high-capacity undersea fiber cables with 50...

by Stephane Chenard Well, here it is: the year 2000. It looks like personal helicopters are missing from the picture (but then, so are those unpleasant food pills and seceding...

by Robustiano Fernandez With the beginning of a new millennium, much attention will be given towards taking stock of past achievements and setting new goals for the future. The commercial...

By Theresa Foley Via Satellite’s annual crystal-ball gazing exercise, involving some of the top CEOs in the satellite industry, finds few surprises in store for the year ahead: too many...

by Cynthia Boeke In many respects, 1999 was a roller-coaster year in satellite history. It will be remembered as the year when two high-profile mobile satellite ventures declared bankruptcy, U.S....

The planned Inmarsat fourth-generation satellite system, for broadband traffic at up to 431Kbit/s, has been the subject of Requests for Proposals (for manufacturing) issued earlier this month. Inmarsat says that...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 62 degrees E: Intelsat-602 D – Radio station Alpha Sports from Greece has launched on 11072 MHz horizontal, APID 257 (left channel). Another...

Italian TV and film conglomerate Cecchi Gori Group (CGG) has rejected a plan to sell off a majority interest in its ailing TMC TV unit and also decided to put...

The Boeing Company will take an equity share in the Skybridge 80-satellite LEO system. Additionally Boeing will take responsibility for launch service provision for the constellation using its Delta Launch...

Leading Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu has released the latest subscriber figures for its analogue and digital services. According to company president and CEO Michel Thoulouze, Telepiu has 500,000 analogue and...