Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] Inmarsat will switch to a single dialling code, +870, for all its services by the end of 2008 as part of its One World, One Number project,...

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] The launch of the Hot Bird and W2M satellites for Eutelsat has been set for Dec. 20, Arianespace announced Dec. 8.     The launch will be Arianespace’s...

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] Glowlink has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a satellite carrier monitoring system to manage FAA satellite communications traffic in Alaska...

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) changed its name to SkyTerra, MSV announced Dec. 8.  MSV’s Canadian joint venture partner, Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc., also is changing its...

[Satellite News 12-05-08] In developing a satellite antenna enabling vehicles to receive the new mobile AT&T CruiseCast TV service, RaySat had to overcome several problems that plagued some of its...

[Satellite Today 12-5-08] SES Astra signed a deal to bring satellite broadband to the Dutch agricultural community, the company announced Dec. 5.     Under the agreement with LTO Commerce, the...

[Satellite Today 12-5-08] Arianespace will loft the ViaSat-1 satellite into orbit for ViaSat in the first half of 2011, the companies announced Dec. 4.     ViaSat in January ordered the...

[Satellite Today 12-04-08] APT Satellite President Cheng Guangren is not convinced that Ka-band satellites have much of a future in Asia.     “We cannot see much opportunity for Ka-band in...

[Satellite Today 12-04-08] Raytheon Co. has appointed Lynn Dugle president of Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), effective Jan. 1, the company announced Dec. 4.     Dugle succeeds Michael Keebaugh,...

[Satellite Today 12-04-08] Cyfrowy Polsat, a digital satellite pay-TV platform in Poland, has launched a mobile phone service, Rodzinna Telefonia Komorkowa (Family Cellular Telephony), based on its own telecommunications infrastructure...