Gregg Daffner, President, Asia Broadcast Satellite Headquartered in Hong-Kong and backed by the majority shareholder Citigroup Venture Capital International (CVCI) with financing from Asia Debt Management (ADM), ABS serves a global customer base with its representative offices in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and N. America. Click here to listen to the audio
	At the centre of Asia For this month’s Question and Answers (Q&A) session Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Asia (SEA), spoke with Ni Yi Feng, President of APT Satellite. Click here for the full story

SES ASTRA announces new capacity contracts for Africa
SES ASTRA announced that it has contracted further capacities for the African continent. New agreements have been concluded since early this year with Unitel Hellas, Skyvision and GS Telecom...

ILS Proton successfully launches ARABSAT's BADR-4 satellite
A Russian-built Proton Breeze M vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the Arabsat BADR-4 satellite that will carry direct-to-home television services, together with voice and broadband services, across the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe...

CASBAA supports Thai Police actions
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) congratulated the Royal Thai Police for recent high-profile raids on three Bangkok-based cable TV operators found distributing unlicensed movies and other pay-TV content...

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) General Assembly backs emergency warning broadcasting system
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) General Assembly has adopted a declaration to implement an Emergency Warning Broadcast System (EWBS) in ABU member countries. The declaration called for the development of an EWBS to minimise the damage and impact of disasters in the region, and for ABU members to urge their national regulators to enact provisions to implement such a system...

EMC is part of the 2006 Top Teleport Operators Ranking
Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is now part of the Top Teleport Operators of 2006 Ranking which was recently announced by World Teleport Association...

TerreStar Networks chooses Arianespace to launch TerreStar I
Arianespace and TerreStar Networks Inc., signed a “Launch on Demand” contract for TerreStar I, which will be the largest commercial communications satellite ever launched into geostationary orbit...

ST Electronics US satcom company named one of the top 10 fastest growing company in Washington DC area
Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) has announced that its US satellite communications company, iDirect Technologies Inc (iDirect), was recognised by the Washington Business Journal as one of the fastest growing companies in the DC area...

NHK-Japan, RTHK-Hong Kong, TBS-Japan, IRIB-Iran, RTPRC-China among top winners of ABU Prizes 2006
The annual ABU Prizes awards ceremony, hosted by China Central Television (CCTV-China), presented awards to broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region in recognition of programming and broadcast engineering excellence...

SES AMERICOM's AMC-18 begins preparations for the December Ariane 5 mission
The activity pace is picking up for Arianespace's December heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission as final pre-launch preparations begin with SES AMERICOM's AMC-18 satellite payload...

EchoStar reports third quarter 2006 financial results
EchoStar Communications Corporation reported total revenue of $2.47 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, a 16 percent increase compared with $2.13 billion for the corresponding period in 2005...

Comtech Telecommunications receives $24.3 million of movement tracking system orders
Comtech Telecommunications announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders totaling $24.3 million in support of ongoing Movement Tracking System Program activities...

C2SAT awarded stabilised VSAT order
C2SAT announced that the vessel GG505 POLAR to be first ship in the Nordic Fishing Fleet to be equipped with the C2SAT patented unique Stabilised VSAT Antenna...

Space Systems/Loral delivers advanced Wildblue-1 satellite to launch base
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, announced that it has delivered WildBlue-1 to the Arianespace spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled for launch in early December...

Globecomm Systems enters into broad-based credit facility with Citibank
Globecomm Systems announced that Citibank, N.A. and the company have entered into a secured credit facility...

SES AMERICOM adds more premium programmers to IP-PRIME IPTV platform
The top choice for national IPTV distribution, SES AMERICOM announced MTV Networks, Scripps Networks, The Weather Channel, Fox News Channel and a host of popular TV and music networks have signed IP-PRIME™ transport agreements, taking SES AMERICOM’s IPTV lineup to 290 channels...