Author: Staff Writer

by Theresa Foley As the new century approaches, the satellite industry is facing a rebirth with the dawning of the age of the global mega-operator, a phenomenon that promises to...

by Katie McConnell With more companies merging and expanding business to various regions of the world, getting together is becoming problematic. With the economics of flying people to a central...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. Earlier this year, the FCC published a guide to the regulatory principles the agency has dealt with over the years. Connecting the Globe: A Regulator’s...

by Cynthia Boeke The recent spate of launch failures and in-orbit anomalies may have cast a shadow over much of the satellite industry, but one company has found a silver...

by Theresa Foley The coming wave of Ka-band satellite systems promises to alter the economics of the satellite business radically. Some of the new systems will have technologies that will...

by Marc Crossman About a year ago, Iridium was set to make its debut as the world’s first provider of mobile satellite telecommunications services. The mobile satellite services (MSS) sector...

Business television in the United Kingdom and Europe grew from 14 networks in 1992 to more than 80 in 1998. Here, BTV is concentrated in the automotive, financial services and...

by Peter Brown Satellites and multimedia are coming together in a very compelling fashion. The explosive demand for multimedia-based content-both in the public and private sectors-is having an impact on...

Eutelsat has published the results of a study of French satellite homes carried out on its behalf by Credome. At the end of June 1999 it found a total of...

Canal Plus reported its half-year results on September 22. Chairman Pierre Lescure said the full year results would show an improvement in the aggregate contribution from overseas earnings, but that...