Focus: Telecom

Qinetiq announced Nov. 1 it is launching a European satellite interference geolocation service intended to deter malicious or accidental disruption of satellite communications services while allowing customers to identify and locate the source of the interference. The service, based on Qinetiq’s SatID system, uses patented techniques to deliver the service. No equipment is required at...

The demand for commercial C- and Ku-band capacity will grow globally at an average annual rate of 3.2 percent, Northern Sky Research (NSR) announced Oct. 31. Between 2005 and 2011, capacity equal to nearly 900 additional transponders will be leased from a large variety of satellite services, pushing annual revenues for leased capacity from $6.7...

The commercial geostationary satellite transponder market produced total revenues of $708.5 billion in Latin America in 2005, and that figure will reach more than $1 trillion by 2012, Frost & Sullivan announced Oct. 31. Though the expansion of terrestrial networks such as fiber, wireless and mobile pose a challenge for the satellite market, the demand...

The World Teleport Association (WTA) announced Nov. 1 its rankings of the Top Teleport Operators of 2006 in three categories. The Global Top 20 includes satellite and fiber carriers operating teleports, led by Intelsat, SES Global and Eutelsat; the Independent Top 20 includes ground segment operators only and is topped by Globecast, Stratos Global and...

Datapath Inc., a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks, announced Nov. 1 the appointment of David Helfgott as president and COO, effective Nov. 15. A 20-year industry veteran, Helfgott formerly was president and CEO of Americom Government Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SES Global S.A., that provides the U.S. government with commercial...

Someone once described drilling for oil as standing on a 6-foot ladder, holding a fishing line with a needle attached to the end, and trying to drill through a 2-by-4 piece of wood. Given this challenge that drilling companies face, there is no doubt that any technology that can make this process more efficient would...

Keeping a global company’s information technology infrastructure efficient, up to date and secure while adhering to a fixed budget is a constant struggle. Simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. Pause for a deep breath and the competition passes you by technologically. Such is the daily world that information technology professionals live in, juggling...

Located some 6,000 miles from the United Kingdom and 1,750 miles from Cape Town, South Africa (whence the islanders receive their sea-snail mail through the vagaries of ship schedules), Tristan da Cunha has been deemed by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the remotest inhabited island in the world.” Some 130 years after the...

As we were going press, developments within the global satellite community were at an all-time high. Business strategies were advancing and financial community interest in satellite-enabled services was gaining momentum within many industry sectors. The fourth quarter kicked off with headline news of Lockheed Martin announcing the sale of its ownership interests in Lockheed Khrunichev...

By Gerry Oberst European satellite operators are complaining that new regulatory structures being establish in the old country are recreating the "landing rights" system that supposedly has been abolished. Landing rights are permissions that operators must obtain for their satellite to be used in a particular country. Traditionally, the system applied to commercial satellite systems...