Focus: Telecom

 [Satellite Today 09-11-08]  As part of a new five-year contract supplying Sky Italia with a fleet of seven automated Satellite News Gathering (SNG) trucks, Arqiva said it will provide Sky Italia with 13.5 MHz of dedicated space segment on the Atlantic Bird 2 satellite and additional ad-hoc capacity as required, Arqiva announced Sept. 11.    ...

[Satellite Today 09-10-08] SpectraTime has been award a contract valued at approximately 4 million euros to supply Rubidium space clocks to the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS), SpectraTime announced Sept. 10.     With this new contract, SpectraTime claims is on the way to having the largest number of atomic clocks in space on-board satellites....

[Satellite Today 09-10-08] Northrop Grumman Corp. has signed a definitive merger agreement with 3001 International Inc. to acquire the company and expand its geospatial business, Northrop Grumman announced Sept. 10.       The company said that the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2008. Though the financial terms of the agreement were...

[Satellite News 09-10-08] Regional operator growth strategies were one of the key themes today at World Satellite Business Week in Paris. Most regional operators, while naturally smaller than industry giants SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat and Telesat, they were all particularly optimistic that they could ride any credit crunch.     At a panel titled “The Dynamic of...

[Satellite News – 09-10-08] Since Telesat president Dan Goldberg sat down with Satellite News in January 2008, certain events have altered the course for the Canadian FSS operate – some for the better and some for the worse. Goldberg recently spoke with Satellite News News Editor Jeffrey Hill to show how better-than-expected Ka-band activity and...

[Satellite Today 09-10-08] Newtec has selected Altera Corp.’s Cyclone II Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to deliver broadband services to its Sat3Play broadband terminal, Newtec announced Sept. 10.     The Sat3Play broadband terminal is part of a two-way satellite system that allows ISPs and Telcos to provide voice, data and television.     The Cyclone II devices...

 [Satellite News 09-10-08] Hughes Network Systems LLC launched a new subscriber portal located at MyHughesNet.com, the company announced Sept. 10.     Synacor has been selected by Hughes to assist in the development of the portal.     Ron Frankel, CEO of Synacor commented, "The new MyHughesNet.com enables Hughes to differentiate its online offering by providing a...

[Satellite News 09-10-08] Global Satellite has launched ComCenter ‘Outdoor’, an Iridium voice and data satellite network, designed for maritime environments, Global Satellite announced.     The service provider claims that the addition of Iridium services completes its global coverage from pole to pole. The ComCenter Outdoor also allows single analog or multi-handset wireless base station interface...

[Satellite Today 09-09-08] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB has been awarded a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license for an ultra-portable satellite communications terminal, Swe-Dish announced Sept. 9.     The Suitcase CCT90 is a quick-to-air broadband satellite terminal featuring a 0.9-meter antenna and CommuniCase technology. CommuniCase technology is based on a common modular system architecture that...

[Satellite Today 09-09-08] Spacenet Inc. has added EV-DO, a 3G high-speed wireless data service, to its portfolio of satellite and common carrier broadband services, the company announced Sept. 8.     The new offering would enable enterprise and government customers to leverage EV-DO as part of a hybrid network for primary or stand-by communications or at...