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Issue 195

- October 8th, 2009

 

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Hispasat to deliver Internet to South America
Amazonas 2 - the new satellite launched by Spanish satellite success story Hispasat - is to play a vital role in delivering the Internet to rural South America - particularly in Brazil, Agentina and Peru...

 

UTV Movies joins MEASAT video neighbourhood
UTV Entertainment Television Limited has signed an agreement for capacity on MEASAT-3a for the carriage of UTV Movies, their flagship Hindi movie channel...

 

ITU, Inmarsat and Vizada agree to enhance mobile communication capacity
ITU, Inmarsat and Vizada SAS have reached an agreement to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of a disaster...

 

GATR Technologies awarded SPAWAR contract
GATR Technologies® has been awarded a contract, and its first two task orders, from the Department of the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to supply satellite terminals to the Department of Defense and other agencies as an evolutionary technology insertion to reduce the tactical footprint of large-aperture, deployed satellite communications systems...

 

Eutelsat breaks 100 HD channel barrier
Eutelsat Communications has announced that it has broken through the barrier of 100 High-Definition TV channels broadcasting through its video satellites. The 100th channel to take to the skies was Sky Sport 1HD, the flagship channel of the latest HD package from the SKY Italia pay-TV platform...

 

Thuraya to target European government and defense markets
To promote Thuraya’s cutting-edge satellite solutions in the key European markets, the Company has partnered with the UK based Global RadioData Communications (GRC). According to the agreement, the specialist firm in communication solutions, GRC, will promote and distribute Thuraya’s entire portfolio of services to government and defense institutions in Europe who demand secure, flexible and high-quality solutions...

 

KVH and On-Waves collaborate on maritime cell phone service
As part of an effort to bring convenient communications to mariners worldwide, KVH Industries and On-Waves Ehf are partnering to make cell phone service at sea a reality for crew and passengers on vessels around the globe. Using KVH’s mini-VSAT Broadbandsm network and TracPhone® V7 satellite communications system along with the On-Waves maritime cell phone service, crew members, passengers, and onboard contractors can easily and affordably use their own cell phones to make and receive calls to and from anywhere in the world...

 

Arabsat to pioneer HD adoption across Arab World
Arabsat is committed to introducing and promoting the use of HDTV across the Middle East region as it continues its development as one of the region’s leading satellite providers...

 

ASTRA2CONNECT reaches 50,000 subscribers
ASTRA2Connect – is now used by more than 50,000 subscribers, an important new milestone in the successful development of the service. The company also announced that it has introduced new service packages that significantly increase the available speeds of the service, with download rates of up to 4,096 kbit/s and upload rates of up to 360 kbit/s...

 


 


Deep-Water exploration booms

Mr. Mike S. Weir, Deep Water Offshore Project Leader, ExxonMobil Development Company will be asking tough questions of the oil & gas offshore solutions during the three-day “Clean
Offshore Technology Congress” in Houston, TX (USA) on December 7-9, 2009.

Beyond Anadarko Petroleum, Chevron Corporation, Shell Exploration &
Production, XTO Energy, Bader Obade J. Al Mansouri, E&P Offshore Manager,
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company will be offering of the keynote addresses on
Wave piercing technology offshore oil & gas.

Full agenda is available at www.acius.net

 

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Contact Aaron Minnema (AMinnema@acius.net).

 

 

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