Focus - Bandwidth Optimization - March - week 3 The virtue of saving bandwidth Thanks to a new breed of technologies, satellite-based backhaul solutions for the mobile industry are becoming more cost-effective and appealing than ever. Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Asia (SEA), reports. Click here for the full story

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Owner of live-TV rights for German Bundesliga to use SES ASTRA satellite capacity
SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), and Arena, owner of live-TV rights for the German first soccer league (Bundesliga), announced today that they have signed a satellite capacity agreement...

Asiasat announces 2005 results
The presentation of the financial results, specifically the comparison between the 2004 and 2005 figures, continues to be distorted by the inclusion of a one-time contribution of HK$107 million in 2004 for the early termination of a transponder utilisation agreement. Excluding the one-time contribution, sales were down by 2%. This is the last report in which the comparative figures will be distorted by the one-time lump sum receipt...

World Telecommunication Development Conference sets agenda to connect the world by 2015
The Doha Action Plan adopted by the World Telecommunication Development Conference sets out a road map to implement the global objectives of harnessing the power of information and communication technologies (ICT) to accelerate the pace of development...

SRG SSR doubles capacity on Eutelsat
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and SRG SSR today announced the signature of a new satellite capacity contract at Eutelsat's HOT BIRD™ video neighbourhood. The new contract concerns a 33MHz transponder on the HOT BIRD™ 7A satellite, which was launched on March 11 by an Ariane 5 ECA booster. This new lease doubles the capacity used by Switzerland's public broadcasting organisation, which has been transmitting via a transponder on Eutelsat's HOT BIRD™ 3 satellite since 1997...

ORBCOMM Announces Three-Year Extension With GE
ORBCOMM, a global satellite telecommunications company, today announced that the Asset Intelligence division of GE Equipment Services has placed orders for 50,000 satellite communicators from Stellar Satellite Communications, a wholly owned ORBCOMM subsidiary. GE also extended its International data communications agreement with ORBCOMM for an additional three years and is developing additional applications using the ORBCOMM network, including an application for the rail industry that is expected to be marketed as RailWise(TM)...

Loral announces its classifications as a non accelerated filer for 2005
Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL) announced today that for the year ending December 31, 2005, it is not considered an accelerated filer as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In accordance with SEC rules, a non-accelerated filer is required to file its Form 10-K within 90 days after the end of its fiscal year...


ATC to Revolutionize MSS Industry in the U.S.
In the recently released market survey and forecast report Mobile Satellite Services, 2nd Edition, NSR concluded that ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) services will revolutionize the MSS industry. The report, which provides an in-depth overview of demand trends for twelve customer segments in five regions of the globe and three oceanic regions, found that ATC will positively impact the MSS industry in the United States...

Gilat to Provide Nearly 7,000 SkyEdge VSATs
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILTF), today announced it has been selected by a consortium of leading Mexican technology firms to provide a network of nearly 7,000 SkyEdge VSATs for use in more than 16,000 Mexican public-school classrooms. The deployment of the network hub and terminals has just begun...

Eutelsats Hot Bird 7A lofted into space
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced that its HOT BIRD™ 7A broadcast satellite has been successfully launched by an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana...


Successful launch of Spainsat
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that the SPAINSAT satellite, manufactured for HISDESAT Servicios Estrategicos S.A. (HISDESAT) of Madrid, was successfully launched today at 2:32 pm Pacific Standard Time. The satellite was lofted into space aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from Arianespace's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana...

SES AMERICOM Names Ducay as COO and Russo as Marketing and Product Management SVP
SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges:SESG), announced today that two key telecommunications industry leaders have joined the executive team: Jim Ducay as Chief Operating Officer and Jon Russo as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management...

SIDSA launches Ether TV, the gateway to IPTV
SIDSA, the international provider of digital TV, IP TV, Mobile TV and broadband solutions, products and services, is fully breaking into the IPTV market with the launch of Ether TV, the perfect solution for IP-based multimedia distribution...

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