EchoStar and Satmex Cancel Deal
TMCnet News
EchoStar Satellite Services, L.L.C. and MVS Comunicaciones have withdrawn the proposed acquisition of Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C. V. (Satmex), a provider of satellite services, after the Satmex’s bondholders objected to the deal.
Topics: telecom, SatMex, EchoStar, United States, satellite, broadband
Intelsat, Turksat Sign Satellite Capacity Deal For Middle East
TMCnet News
Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced an agreement with Turksat A.S., the leading satellite operator in Turkey, which will result in enhanced satellite capacity serving the Middle East region.
Topics: telecom, United States, cellular, satellite, broadband, Intelsat
SpaceCom Buys Capacity on Intelsat 902 Satellite
TMCnet News
SpaceCom International has signed a contract for capacity on the Intelsat 902 satellite, operated by Intelsat, increasing SpaceCom’s inventory of more than 400MHz combined C-Band and Ku-Band capacity.
Topics: cellular, voip, GSM, telecom, Ku-band, satellite, Intelsat, United States
KeyOn: No Broadband Stimulus Money in First Round
TMCnet
KeyOn announced that it was notified by the Rural Utilities Service that its applications under the Broadband Initiatives Program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 were not awarded. Despite the fact that all 11 of KeyOn’s applications had advanced to the due diligence phase in Round One, the RUS did not advance [...]
Mexican Satellite Operator Satmex Acquired by Echostar For $374 Million
TMCnet News
Established in the mid 1980s as part of a government operation before becoming a commercial organization, Satmex owns and operates three satellites and two satellite uplink facilities, and has approximately 200 employees, which are all included as part of the transaction.
Topics: SatMex, Unified Technologies Group, Mexico, satellite, broadband, USA, ATM, United States, telecom
Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband Success Continues
TMCnet News
Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has announced that there are now more than 400 SwiftBroadband channels activated on aircraft operating worldwide. The achievement makes SwiftBroadband the fastest growing aeronautical service in Inmarsat’s history.
Topics: broadband, satellite, cellular, United States, telecom
Solar Outages Could Disrupt Alaska Phone Service
Tundra Drums
Blame the sun if your phone goes out next month. GCI warns that a celestial line-up of earth, satellite and sun could briefly fuzz out telecommunications services in much of Alaska.
Topics: telecommunications, satellite, Alaska, telecom, outage
Spacecom to Launch Temporary Satellite
TMCnet News
Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd. (TASE:SCC) is reconfiguring the Amos 6 communications satellite to handle broadband Internet. Spacecom president and CEO David Pollack said that the company planned to target emerging markets that have no ground infrastructure, and where satellite communications can offer a fast and effective solution.
Topics: telecom, broadband, satellite, United States
China Unicom Deploys Gilat’s Satellite-Based Cellular Backhaul Solution
TMCnet News
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) today announced that China Unicom is deploying Gilat’s SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution to enhance GSM mobile connectivity in China’s Xinjiang region.
Topics: China, satellite, United States, cellular, telecom
ESA Duel Telecom Satellites Now in Orbit
TMCnet News
JCSat-12 will operate in the Ku- and C-bands, providing broadcast and broadband services covering Japan, the Oceania and Asia-Pacific regions and Hawaii. Optus D3 will operate in the Ku-band, delivering direct-to-home TV broadcast, Internet, telephony and data transmission services for Australia and New Zealand.
Topics: broadband, Australia, telecom, satellite, United States
No Price Cut Soon, Just Faster Speeds, Internet Firms Say
TMCnet News
It was expected that with the switching on of the Seacom fibre-optic submarine cable connecting East Africa to the rest of the world, broadband speeds would improve and Internet costs would reduce at the same time. Consumers are already experiencing faster connectivity, but this is not applying to costs.
Topics: cellular, United States, Africa, [...]
Qwest, DirecTV Extend Satellite TV Partnership
Wall Street Journal
Qwest Communications Inc. (Q) Tuesday agreed to sell DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV) satellite TV service to its customers for five more years as both look to stave off competition from the cable providers.
Topics: Washington, satellite, telecom, telecommunications, AT&T, Verizon, Qwest
Virgin and Vizada Partner to Provide Inmarsat BGAN and Iridium Services in Canada
TMCnet News
The two companies will partner to offer Inmarsat BGAN and Iridium satellite communications services to the Canadian market.
Topics: Canada, United States, telecom, telephone, telecommunications, satellite, voip
Hybrid Satellite-Cell Pocket Phone May Arrive This Year
PC World
Previous attempts to create a mass-market satellite phone may have failed miserably—just ask the backers of Globalstar, Iridium, and Odyssey—but a Virginia-based satellite firm believes it has a better solution that just may work this time.
Topics: 4G, handset, 3G, Vermont, wireless, satellite, telecommunications, telecom, cellular
Sky Apologizes for PSN Issues
Afterdawn.com
Sky Broadband has admitted and apologized for an error with their system that has been blocking UK users from accessing the PlayStation Network for the seven hour period of 5pm to midnight.
Topics: satellite, voip, telecommunications, Sky Broadband, telecom
