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Issue 27 - July 14th 2006


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Launch of Insat 4C failed
The launch of India's heaviest communication satellite Insat-4C has failed says The Times of India, dealing a blow to the country's DTH ambitions...

Intersputnik Holding to build earth stations for Golden Telecom satellite network
Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, has won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite earth stations for Golden Telecom satellite network in the territory of the Russian Federation...

VTV affirms quality of MEASAT satellite service
MEASAT Satellite System has announced that Vietnam Television (“VTV”), the national broadcaster of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, has renewed its agreement to lease MEASAT-2 Ku-band capacity for the countries Direct to Home ("DTH") Pay-TV service...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. receives $2.4 million Blue Force Tracking order
Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $2.4 million order for its mobile satellite data communications transceivers...

TANDBERG Television delivers $100M revenues in Q206
TANDBERG Television delivered revenues of US$ 100.1 million in 2Q06, up 40% compared to $ 71.2million in 2Q05. The gross margin was 58.2%, up from 55.1% in the same quarter in 2005. Operating profit was $18.9 million compared to $12.2 million in the same quarter last year. Pre-tax profit was $21.3, million up from $12.2 million in the same period in the previous year...

REDiSat Network, the consummate emergency communications network
SES AMERICOM has announced the availability of its newest product, REDiSat Network(TM), for America's first responders, emergency management professionals, and private enterprises from the financial, manufacturing, retail, and oil and gas industries...

Peter Stier named Vice President, Marketing and Sales of Sea Launch
The Sea Launch Company has named Peter Stier to be Vice President, Marketing and Sales, effective immediately. He replaces Rob Peckham, who became President and General Manager of the company in June...


NATO awards Globecomm Systems and EMS SATCOM, as a major sub-contractor, $7.8 million contract for GPS-Based Force Tracking System
Globecomm Systems Inc a global provider of end-to-end value-added satellite-based communications solutions, announced today that the Company and EMS SATCOM, a division of EMS Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ELMG), as a major sub-contractor, has been awarded a contract valued at $7.8 million from NATO to provide a Multi-National global positioning satellite-based friendly force tracking system (FTS)...


Loral Skynet do Brasil to provide nationwide fixed satellite communications services
Loral Skynet do Brasil, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications has signed a contract with Chile's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. (ENTEL), the country's second largest telecommunications company, to provide nationwide fixed satellite communications services aboard Loral Skynet's Estrela do Sul 1/Telstar 14 satellite...


Intelsat General Corporation signs long-term agreement to support EADS Space Services and ND SatCom partnership
Intelsat General Corporation (IGC), a leading provider of broadband satellite solutions to the commercial and government markets, announced that MilSat Services GmbH, a company set up by EADS Space Services and ND SatCom, signed a 10-year contract for leased satellite services...


ITU and Thuraya forge partnership for portable satellite terminals
The International Telecommunication Union and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief...


End II End unveils North American optimization lab for development and demonstration
End II End Communications (EIIE) has announced the official opening of its new Optimization Laboratory, for product demonstration and development, in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA)...


Syracuse 3B military communications satellite built by Alcatel Alenia Space arrives at launch site in French Guiana
The new-generation military communications satellite Syracuse 3B, built by Alcatel Alenia Space as prime contractor for the French Defense procurement agency (DGA), arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, for launch by an Ariane 5 ECA on August 11, 2006...


Exhibition Update

3G WORLD CONGRESS & MOBILITY MARKETPLACE 2006
Located in Hong Kong - Asia's World city- the 3G WORLD CONGRESS 2006 will again explore the latest developments and market opportunities in 3G and emerging wireless broadband technologies, networks, handsets and wireless devices, services, content, entertainment and applications for the consumer and enterprise markets. Highlights include:

  • Case studies and deployment experiences from all regions including Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas, providing a global perspective of the industry opportunities ahead.
  • Full range of visionary CEO keynote sessions, special interest tracks, workshops and discussion forums focused on strategic business, market, financial, and technology plans, enabling Congress supporters to get their message across in the region's most influential industry gathering.

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