Focus: Telecom

Project Exploration is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose goal is to make natural science accessible to the public, especially urban youth. In October 2003, University of Chicago paleontologist Dr. Paul Sereno and 11 team members crisscrossed northern Niger’s Sahara desert in search of Africa’s youngest dinosaurs. The National Geographic Society and the David and Lucille...

In 1991, Home Depot was well on its way to conquering the home improvement retail market in the United States. At the time, the retailer was supporting 28,000 employees in 174 stores throughout Georgia, Florida, Texas and New Jersey, and annual sales had soared to $5.1 billion. There seemed to be no end in sight...

I recently attended a summit that, in part, brought to the discussion floor the topic of corporate and government distance learning networks and where the next-generation trends and uses are headed. I was surprised by what the industry analysts had to say: The future minimally involves satellite. This surprised me not because I am the...

By Gerry Oberst We wrote in our September column about efforts in Europe to reshape media rules and the various ways these efforts could affect the satellite industry. As we noted, the European Commission had released a series of issues papers on possible changes to the Television Without Frontiers legislative framework and invited comments. Comments...

By Jason Bates After spending much of the 20th century behind the Iron Curtain, many Central and Eastern European countries are embracing their relatively new economic and political freedoms and joining Western European counterparts in their desire for advanced communications and technology. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe are prime targets for expanding commercial...

by James Careless Carefully, cautiously, Russia is embracing satellite services. Look across the nation and you will see earth stations connecting oil and gas exploration sites, banks, government offices, schools and even lottery terminals. Following 70 years of regulation-based Soviet rule, the world’s largest nation was left with a weakened economy with no real credit...

Scrambling after the fact, U.S. federal agencies began deploying mobile satellite-enabled communications services to the battered U.S. Gulf Coast to fill gaps in existing commercial, federal and public safety communications systems interrupted or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As the storm approached, the American Red Cross began sending equipment and personnel. Emergency response vehicles equipped with...

by Peter J. Brown There is the triple play – voice, video and data, all on one bill – and then there is The Texas Triple Play. First of all, let me say that the mid-2005 legislative bombshell in Texas in the form of a statewide franchise for the IPTV or telco TV sector may...

By Sam Silverstein Nearly three decades after the mobile satellite business took to the skies with Inmarsat’s pioneering emergency communications network for ships at sea, officials across the industry are preparing for a new era they hope will redefine go-anywhere satellite services as an integral, essential part of modern telecommunications. The new Iridium and Globalstar...

By Jason Bates The more than 20 countries that make up the Middle East are thirsting for more satellite bandwidth in order to provide a wide variety of military and commercial services throughout the region. Companies that want to play in the market may have to jump through plenty of hoops to establish their businesses,...