Issue: VS Feature

After helping to reshape the FSS landscape, investors took a step back from satellite during the economic downturn. Now old and new investors are being lured back by promising opportunities....

On Jan. 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, devastating the western end of Hispaniola and making life even more difficult for the country’s 9...

Decreasing costs, technological advances and enhanced experience mean the future is bright for telepresence via satellite. If you have participated in videoconferences, you would have noticed how the experience has...

  Terrestrial radio has been battered financially, as new competitors and the slow economy hurt the ad-based advertising model, but new technology and satellite delivery is helping radio players survive....

Peter Shaper’s introduction to the satellite communications sector occurred while he was a partner in a private equity firm. Research into telecom companies that were “undervalued” led to CapRock Communications....

Belief that demand for capacity serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) soon will skyrocket has been building for more than a year, spurred by a combination of increasing...

Teleports often are characterized as the ground-based infrastructure of a satellite network, but the term means different things to different people. There is a surprising amount of diversification in the...

The success enjoyed by the commercial satellite sector over recent decades comes as no surprise to the engineers, technicians and managers who have been contributing to its remarkable growth by...

The World Cup will take place in Africa for the first time, presenting unique challenges for broadcasters such as ITV, one of the biggest broadcasters in the United Kingdom. “This...

There are a few primary areas which have the biggest impact on a teleport operator’s bottom line and/or the ability to improve service delivery. These broad areas include: space segment,...