Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] SatelliteToday.com will feature the latest news from MilSpace beginning May 6.     Be sure to check out the live Blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog for updates on events in Paris May 6 and 7.

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] Panasonic Avionics Corp. plans to launch an Internet service for airline passengers using a system that will leverage Intelsat’s GlobalConnex Network Broadband service, Intelsat announced May 6.     The service, dubbed eXConnect, enables two-way broadband connectivity for providing services such as virtual private networks, television, streaming media and operational applications. Data...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures posted a 6 percent increase in revenues for the first quarter of 2008, the company announced May 6.     MSV is owned primarily by and is the sole operating asset of SkyTerra Communications Inc., and the two company’s financial results are no longer published separately. SkyTerra posted $8.6...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. reported a 34 percent increase in revenues in the 2008 first quarter of 2008 as well as a 14 percent increase in gross profit, the company announced May 5.     Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 totaled $17.8 million, compared to $13.3 million in the...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] SES Astra has signed an agreement with Internet service provider NordNet to market SES Astra’s satellite-based two-way broadband service Astra2Connect in France, SES Astra announced May 6.     Astra2Connect will be distributed under the brand name NordNet beginning in the second half of May.     “NordNet has always striven to offer...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] PBLSat has bought capacity on Eutelsat’s W1 satellite, PBLSat announced May 6.     “Eutelsat W1 will complement our leases on W2 and Atlantic Bird 1 as well as offer our clients greater flexibility at a time when ad hoc satellite capacity can be in short supply,” PBLSat Managing Director Nic Thorley...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] Wegener Corp. is in compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market’s minimum bid price requirement and will remain listed, the company announced May 5.     The company received a notice from Nasdaq May 5 stating that because the closing bid price of its common stock has been at $1 per share or...

[Satellite Today – 5-6-08] Globecomm Systems has named Jeff Winkler vice president of network services, Globecomm announced May 6.      Winkler will be responsible for the overall business management of Globecomm Services Maryland (GSM), including technical operations, engineering, and program management.     Winkler served previously as engineering and operations manager for GSM.

[Satellite News – 5-6-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) posted a 6 percent increase in revenues for the first quarter of 2008 and has made significant progress in implementing the cooperation agreement signed with Inmarsat plc in December, the company announced May 6.     The agreement, made between Inmarsat, MSV, MSV Canada and MSV parent company...

[Satellite Today – 5-5-08] SES New Skies has contracted 40 megahertz of capacity on the NSS-7 satellite to Lebanese Internet service provider (ISP) IDMI, SES announced May 5.     IDMI will use the capacity to introduce a new DVB-S2 (digital video broadcasting-satellite-second generation) broadband platform for customers in the Middle East and Africa. NSS-7 is...