Tim Shea, Managing Director, Loral Skynet, Asia-Pacific Loral Skynet has built a global network that offers a broad array of solutions to meet your communications needs — wherever they may be — by combining the power of geosynchronous satellites positioned in space with high-speed terrestrial fiber. By using broadcast technology, Skynet seamlessly transports high-quality data, voice and video content for television programming, telephony, business communications, high-quality audio, broadband, and Internet connectivity. Click here to listen to the audio
	Taking defence to a new level Over the next few years the defence sector is set to bolster its position as one of the principal customers for the satellite industry. Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution EMEA, attended MilSatCom 2006 held in London on 13-15 November 2006, and reports on the trends that are sweeping through one of the most sophisticated satellite sectors in the world. Click here for the full story

Mitsubishi Electric announces sale of Ku Band Low Noise GaAs HEMT
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced it has finished development of a Ku band1 low noise GaAs High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) used in low noise amplifiers for 10-12 GHz Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) and Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) reception systems. Sample shipments will begin on February 15, 2007...

Intersputnik makes satellite resource available to TV-Novosti for on-site TV coverage
The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications has signed a contract with the Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation TV-Novosti for the lease of Intelsat 904 satellite capacity at 60 degrees East longitude...

GlobeCast ensures Worldwide reach for France 24 launch
France 24, the French international news channel, kicked off its worldwide launch in Paris on 6 December. GlobeCast is delivering the channel's signal via its satellite and fiber network on three continents...

AMC-18 successfully launched from Kourou Spaceport
SES GLOBAL announces that the AMERICOM-18 (AMC-18) satellite which is to be operated by SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company, was successfully launched onboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the French Guiana Spaceport in Kourou...

Interactive TV on Viasat goes live with technology from never.no
Active Loop Television AS (Oslo, Norway) have supplied Viasat (London, UK) with new interactive formats for Norwegian TV3 and ZTV, powered by software from never.no...

Helius partners with DataCall
Helius Inc., the worldwide leader in IPTV solutions for business, announced that DataCall has joined its strategic alliance programme. This partnership allows customers access to real-time digital signage information that is timely, informative and relevant...

CASBAA to pursue 2007 mobile, regulatory agenda
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced its strategic direction for 2007, as well as the results of 2006 Annual General Meeting elections to the CASBAA Council of Governors and Board of Directors...

BroadcastAsia returns to Singapore in 2007 with hall improvements and will incorporate a larger emphasis on ComGraphics and Animation2007
Organisers for BroadcastAsia2007, the region’s premier Broadcasting event, have revealed that the show will increase its presence for ComGraphics&Animation2007. Over 80% of exhibition space has already been booked, testament to the event’s relevance and growing importance of the Broadcasting and Animation industries in Asia...

Video on demand movie deal signed between DISH Network and New Line Cinema
EchoStar Communications Corporation and its DISH NetworkTM satellite TV service announced an agreement with New Line Cinema to carry the studio’s current and catalog titles on its Video On Demand platform, DISH On Demand, as well as Pay-Per-View services...

ILS Proton successfully launches MEASAT-3 satellite
A Russian Proton launch vehicle lifts off Dec. 12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the MEASAT-3 satellite for Malaysia. The launch was managed by International Launch Services of McLean, Va., as the fourth commercial mission on a Proton vehicle this year. The satellite will serve Malaysia and 100 East Asian countries...

Glowlink awarded with new contracts for satellite spectrum monitoring, interference detection and geolocation equipment
Glowlink, a leading provider of satellite ground systems, announced that they have signed a trio of new contracts. These contracts call for Glowlink to supply spectrum monitoring, interference detection, and geolocation equipment to organizations spanning the public interest sector, the US Government, and technology conglomerates in the Asia Pacific region. Identities of the organizations were not disclosed...

Comtech Telecommunications receives $1.9 million of Blue Force Tracking orders for its mobile ground satellite data communications transceivers
Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders totaling $1.9 million for its mobile satellite data communications transceivers...

Boeing receives first signals from new MEASAT-3 satellite
Boeing and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd have announced that Boeing has acquired the first signal from the MEASAT-3 satellite following its successful launch on Dec. 11. The satellite now will maneuver itself to a geostationary orbit approximately 22,300 miles above Earth where a series of spacecraft deployments and tests will verify that it is ready to begin service...

Your gateway to the booming Vietnam ICT market
Vietnam Comm 2007 (the Vietnam International Communications Summit & Expo – Vietnam Wireless & Vietnam IT) will be staged in the Hanoi - Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Centre (VEFAC), from September 19-22, 2007. With the huge success of Vietnam Telecomp, which had just finished in September 2006, Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, will launch its extension in Hanoi next year the same month...

Trans Continental Airlines to test The Edge for In-Flight Usage
Edgetech International is pleased to confirm testing for in-flight usage of The Edge wireless Internet device by Trans Continental Airlines will commence in January 2007. EGIL is embarking on another cutting edge joint venture under our previously announced partnership with Lou Pearlman and his diversified Trans Continental empire. The Edge by Edgetech is a sleek, handheld, stand alone wireless unit with a built-in modem and full-screen display functioning at DSL-type speed...

The fully networked car at the Geneva International Motor Show
ITU along with partners International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) will review and examine the implications of the latest developments in the fast-moving market for information and communication technologies (ICT) in motor vehicles at the next Geneva Motor Show to be held from 2 to 12 March 2007...