Focus: Telecom

With Microspace Communications Corp.’s digital cinema premiere of “Transformers” in Los Angeles June 27, the Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of broadcast video, data and audio satellite services may have found a...

The key to reducing delays and increasing safety in the aviation industry lies in the quick adoption of a satellite-based air traffic control system, according to aviation experts. A major...

In a move both to bolster its aeronautical broadband offerings and facilitate its entry to the land mobile and maritime markets, Norcross, Ga.-based EMS Technologies Inc. has signed a definitive...

In April, the U.S. State Department used the American technology export regulatory regime to bar the $295 million acquisition of AsiaSat by its principal shareholders, GE Capital Equity Investments and...

The mobile satellite industry, brimming with optimism, gathered in late May in Baltimore, the first time in five years that the industry had met under the umbrella of the Mobile...

Last week’s news of the plans of U.K.-based private equity firm BC Partners to purchase with other investors a majority stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $5.03 billion looks to prove...

Thuraya has recently embarked on an ambitious pricing strategy as it looks to make its mobile satellite services more popular. Earlier this month, the company announced it was relaunching its...

A pioneering program by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is providing technical expertise to human rights groups and helping Amnesty International USA with a new online...

One of the most ambitious satellite broadband programs taking place anywhere in the world is Shin Satellite’s IPStar initiative, which aims to deliver cutting-edge satellite broadband services to corporations and...

To better provide the timeliest news and industry analysis amid the changing demands of the digital workplace, June 25 marks the end of the blue sheet version of Satellite News...