Focus: Telecom

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 mobile satellite services business in a bid to win more customers while promising to extend significant discounts to its existing customers. The services will be...

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 effort to monitor threatened settlements in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan and provide evidence of destroyed villages. High-resolution commercial satellite images – provided at...

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 users across Asia. So far, it is proving a tough sell: At the end of March, Shin had approximately 75,000 IPStar customers and added just...

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 as our redesigned Web site, http://www.SatelliteToday.com, carries forward with improved user-friendliness and interaction with you, our subscribers. In recent months, the publication has been evolving...

A week after Mexico’s predominant satellite service provider announced that the auction for its capital stock was being suspended, questions remained about an imminent sale. On June 8, Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (SatMex) announced that it was suspending its sale process and looking to reconsider its position. The announcement came one day after French-owned...

DataPath is on the verge of completing its acquisition of European mobile satellite terminal vendor Swe-Dish Satellite Systems with a deal likely to be announced later in the month, a Swe-Dish executive said on June 8. Lars Jehrlander, CEO of Swe-Dish, confirmed to Satellite News that the company had already told employees about the deal...

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 as our redesigned Web site, http://www.SatelliteToday.com, carries forward with improved user-friendliness and interaction with you, our subscribers. In recent months, the publication has been evolving...

Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (SatMex) Mexico’s predominant satellite service provider, announced June 8 that it was suspending its sale process for the company’s capital stock. Luis Rebollar, chairman of SatMex’s board, said in a statement that "we believe SatMex is a valuable asset, and its management and board of directors are committed to constantly...

Arabsat is one of the leading satellite operators in the Middle East and a key bandwidth provider to broadcasters, pay-TV operators and other businesses in the region. The dynamics of the industry landscape were directly affected by the January launch failure of NSS-8, a vital component of SES New Skies‘ strategy for the Middle East...

To better provide the timeliest news and industry analysis amid the changing demands of the digital workplace, this month marks the end of the blue sheet version of Satellite News as our redesigned Web site, http://www.SatelliteToday.com, carries forward with improved user-friendliness and interaction with you, our subscribers. In recent months, the publication has been evolving...