Focus: Broadcasting

[11-14-07 – Satellite Today] UDcast will supply DVB-H headends for Harris Corp.’s Atlas DVB-H Mobile TV transmitters, UDcast announced Nov. 14.     UDcast will provide its DVB-H IP encapsulators, network managers and monitoring equipment. Harris transmitters will be fully interoperable with UDcast’s iSpicer to enable regionalization of programming from a single source, allowing operators to...

    [11-13-07 – Satellite Today] Eutelsat Communications signed a five-year contract with Entertainment Highway Ltd. to provide capacity on the W4 satellite, Eutelsat announced Nov. 13.     Entertainment Highway will use a Ku-band transponder connected to a high-power spotbeam for a pay-TV platform serving Nigeria. Using teleport facilities in Rambouillet, France, Eutelsat will encrypt and...

[11-09-07 – Satellite Today] The Kudelski Group, a supplier of middleware and conditional access services to direct-to-home players, said Nov. 8 that profits for 2007 were likely to be lower than expected. The company now anticipates 2007 earnings before interest and taxes of between 85 million Swiss francs and 95 million Swiss francs  ($75.2 million...

[11-09-07 – Satellite Today] International Datacasting Corp. has received $460,000 in research funding for a next-generation Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) product line, the company announced Nov. 8.     The funding, from the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), will help keep the company competitive, IDC President and CEO Ron Clifton said.    ...

[11-08-07 – Satellite Today] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. and Mexican reseller Jaba Networks are deploying a number of its iNetVu Mobile satellite antennas to assist medical authorities with the flood emergency in Mexico, the company announced Nov. 8.     The iNetVu auto-deploying satellite antennas are installed on top of Mobile Hospital Vehicles owned by the...

[11-08-07 – Satellite Today] SkyPort Global Communications will provide satellite connectivity for Cisco Systems Inc.’s Emergency Response Networks (ERN) service, SkyPort announced Nov. 7.     Cisco’s ERN service provides emergency voice, video, and Internet connectivity for first responders during disasters where terrestrial communication is unavailable or disrupted. Cisco maintains two mobile command and control centers...

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, saw strong subscriber growth in the three months to the end of September. This was one of the highlights of its third quarter results, announced Nov. 6. At the end of September, Premiere had just over 3.5 million direct subscribers, an increase of close to 60,000...

[11-02-07 – Satellite Today] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has signed a deal to expand Filipino channel NET 25’s coverage across the Middle East and Europe, ABS announced Nov. 2. Under the contract, ABS will broadcast NET 25 on the ABS-1 satellite for cable TV and IPTV distribution. NET 25 is a free TV channel operated...

In the second half of 2007, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a batch of consultations and regulations that affect the burgeoning satellite broadcasting industry in India. A big burst of activity took place in August and September, as the regulator described comments it received on regulating the headend in the sky...

[11-01-07 – Satellite News] NDS, the conditional access and middleware vendor which generates around 80 percent of its revenues from satellite players, has signed another deal with a start-up direct-to-home player, adding leading Indian cellular operator Bharti Airtel, to NDS’s stable of customers.     Bharti expects to launch pay-TV services in India soon, and Abe...