Focus: Telecom

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...

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...

By Peter J. Brown Satellites have always enjoyed an advantage over terrestrial alternatives when it comes to beaming one-way transmissions over vast distances. Broadcasting the same signal to any number...

By Owen D. Kurtin Earlier this year, this column devoted a four-part series to the earlier-than-anticipated exits of private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) companies into initial public...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

By Peter J. Brown The use of Ka-band is gaining momentum. Throughout the next year, the broadband over satellite sector in particular will know if the overall business model is...