Focus - Risk Insurance - March - week 4 Averting unnecessary risks As an increasing number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region join the club of nations with space and satellite capacity, new insurance brokers and underwriters are making their entrance into the global marketplace. John Balding, Correspondent of Satellite Evolution Asia (SEA), takes a look at recent developments in a market that has finally entered its maturity phase: China. Click here for the full story

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RSCC and CNC to set up international satellite TV broadcasting for the 2008 Olympic Games
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and the China Netcom (Group) Company Limited (CNC) - a Chinese Telecommunications Company – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding about establishing international satellite TV transmissions from the Olympic Games 2008 in the presence of Russia and China’s Heads of States. RSCC and CNC reached agreements on cooperation in terms of providing high-quality and reliable telecommunications services during the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing to the companies qualified to broadcast the Olympic Games on the territory of Russia and the CIS...

NTV-Plus, Russias leading pay-TV platform expands resource on Eutelsats W4 satellite through new contract with RSCC
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) announces that NTV-Plus, Russia's leading direct-to-home pay-TV platform, is boosting its capacity on Eutelsat's W4 satellite from six to eight transponders. The new agreement for high-power capacity on Eutelsat's W4 satellite has been concluded between NTV Plus and the RSCC (Russian Satellite Communications Company), Russia's national satellite communications operator and a longstanding partner with Eutelsat in the Russian market...

Maryland's World Trade Center Institute selects Britt Carina Horncastle to receive its annual International Leadership Award
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway (Oslo Stock Exchange: TEL and NASDAQ: TELN), today announced that Britt Carina Horncastle, president of the company's United States operations, has been named one of Maryland's outstanding international business leaders for 2006...

Intelsat reschedules Fourth Quarter 2005 Earnings Release and conference call - completing year-end process
Intelsat, Ltd. is rescheduling its fourth quarter and full year 2005 earnings release and conference call, originally scheduled for Thursday, March 23, 2006. The company said that the recent filing of its Form S-4 registration statement contributed to unanticipated delays, and that additional time is required to complete its year-end process...

SES AMERICOM and NDS ink deal to provide IP-PRIME with IPTV Content Protection Software
SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), today announced an agreement with NDS to provide end-to-end IPTV content protection aboard SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME(TM) distribution platform...

Loral Skynet re-enters US and North American FSS Market
Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL), today announced that as of March 18, 2006, it has resumed offering fixed satellite services (FSS) to customers in North America...



Intelsat Appoints Jeffrey P. Freimark as Chief Financial Officer
Intelsat, Ltd. today announced that Jeffrey P. Freimark has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective on the resignation of Robert Medlin. Mr. Medlin has been serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer of Intelsat since June 2005, and is expected to resign his post in April 2006...

GlobeCast Delivers ESPN Classic to the UK via satellite
ESPN Inc, the world’s leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company, has struck a deal with GlobeCast – a global content management and delivery company - to deliver ESPN Classic, the company’s first UK-dedicated sports channel, to the Sky Digital platform...


Alcatel Alenia Space wins a major contract in North America for Ciel-2 satellite with Ciel Satellite, part of SES family
Alcatel Alenia Space today announced that it will deliver the high-powered Ciel-2 telecommunication satellite to Ciel Satellite of Canada, the newest member of the SES family. The new spacecraft, expected to launch by late 2008, will be the largest Spacebus class satellite ever built by Alcatel Alenia Space...

ICO North America to launch its GEO Satellite using International Launch Services' Atlas V
ICO North America (ICO) today announced that it has signed an agreement to launch its geostationary satellite on an Atlas V rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). The Atlas V is manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), which is a partner in the ILS joint venture...

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