Focus: Telecom

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for collecting taxes, as well as administering business and individual tax programs. The nearly 100,000 IRS employees include...

Prime Satcom Consulting Ltd. (www.primesatcom.com) activated a motorized, transportable satellite terminal on Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue’s Incident Command Vehicle. The service uses Skylogic’s hub based in Turin, Italy. Likewise, the...

Seamobile, Inc. (www.seamobile.com), a global provider of advanced at-sea wireless voice and data communications services, signed an agreement with Silversea Cruises, a luxury cruise line, to provide communication solutions for...

Weida Communications Inc. (www.weida.com) received three new contracts to provide satellite communications systems for electric power utilities in China. The first contract is with the Fuxin Electric Power Bureau, which...

Blue Sky Network (www.blueskynetwork.com) announced a new satellite-based panel-mounted control head for aircraft. The ACH1000 offers cockpit integrated voice capabilities and short code messaging to its D1000-series global satellite flight...

Delphi Corp. (www.delphi.com) delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via the Orbcomm...

Mobile Satellite Services provider MVS (www.mvsusa.com) introduced a new ship tracking solution that uses the Iridium Satellite LLC satellite constellation for short-burst data transmissions. The system provides real-time vessel monitoring...

Globalstar LLC will use its planned system of terrestrial repeaters to boost the availability of its Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) in urban areas and within buildings, but the company also...

Eutelsat ended 2005 in hectic fashion, closing the saga of its efforts to go public with a successful initial public offering (IPO) Dec. 2 after an earlier false start. With...

"…Via Satellite can’t be merely good, it will have to be better, striving to be the best…" Those were the words of then Editor and Publisher Irl Marshall, in 1986,...