ITU Telecom World - Hong Kong Review The ITU Telecom World 2006 conference and exhibition was held in Hong Kong, arguably Asia’s most vibrant city, on 4-8 December 2007. Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Asia, reports from Hong Kong. Click here to watch the video

ONDAS Media signs content agreement with Talpa Radio B.V
ONDAS Media, the premier satellite media company for Europe, which specialises in providing comprehensive digital services for consumers on the move, has announced a partnership agreement with leading Dutch broadcaster Talpa Radio B.V...

RAMTelecom and SkyPort International form strategic alliance to expand North American service access and coverage
RAMTelecom Inc. (TSX-V:RTC), a satellite service provider delivering flexible, scalable solutions for broadband data and voice business communications, has announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with SkyPort International Inc. of Houston, TX, that will allow both companies to better meet the communications needs of their customers...

Globecomm Systems receives an additional $2.0 million on a previously announced long-term infrastructure project
Globecomm Systems announced that the Company has received a second round of funding on a previously announced $7 million infrastructure contract for a foreign government...

DIRECTV and Intel Bring connectivity to TV, PC
DIRECTV, Inc., the nation’s leading satellite television service provider, announces that the DIRECTV Plus® HD DVR has been verified with Intel® Viiv™ technology. With this certification, DIRECTV becomes largest supplier of Viiv-verified digital media adapters (DMAs)...

CapRock expands UK facilities in response to significant growth in the region
CapRock Communications, a leading global provider of satellite communications, recently completed the upgrade of its existing Network Operations Center (NOC) in Aberdeen, Scotland. This expansion will enable the company to further support its mission to provide uncompromising service and support to its growing customer base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

Verso and ViaSat selected by Telikom Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Verso Technologies announced that its GSM A.bis optimization technology was selected by Telikom Papua New Guinea (PNG), New Guinea’s main telecom provider, to reduce network congestion, double current capacity, and substantially increase the carrier’s mobile subscriber base...

Telekom Serbia selects Gilat SkyEdge for public telephony and enterprise applications
Gilat Satellite Networks said that Telekom Serbia, the incumbent telecom carrier in Serbia, will deploy Gilat’s SkyEdge broadband satellite hub and several hundred VSATs to serve its residential and corporate customers...

ORBCOMM representative receives authorization to operate in Mexico
ORBCOMM announced that its Mexican country representative, MITE Global Communications Systems S.A. de C.V. (“MITE GCS”) has obtained regulatory authorization by the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (“SCT”) to provide ORBCOMM satellite services in Mexico...

Intelsat announces pricing of notes
Intelsat, Ltd., the world’s largest provider of fixed satellite services,has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd., priced $600 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate senior notes due 2015. The notes will bear interest at LIBOR plus 350 basis points...

DISH Network introduces TV on the go
EchoStar Communications Corporation and its DISH Network™ satellite TV service has introduced the MobileDISH in-car satellite service, a programming package by DISH Network combined with cutting-edge antenna technology from RaySat™. The MobileDISH technology allows DISH Network customers to watch live satellite television from their vehicles, even while in motion...

Comtech Telecommunications receives $2.6 million of orders to provide equipment and services to support the expansion of the military satellite communications system in Brazil
Comtech Telecommunications has received $2.6 million of orders for equipment and services in support of the expansion of the Brazilian military satellite communications system...

Boeing to begin second phase of enhanced polar system payload study
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force MILSATCOM Systems Wing have exercised an $8.4 million contract option to activate Phase II of the Enhanced Polar System (EPS) payload study. Phase I began in July 2006 with a $1.5 million award to Boeing to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-orbiting satellite...

Patriot Antenna Systems announces 2 new development contracts for the new 3.8m and 4.8m deployable trailer mount antennas
Patriot Antenna Systems is pleased to offer the new 3.8m and 4.8m Deployable Trailer Mount Antennas. These high performance antennas provide combined convenience and quality...

Arianespace to launch ProtoStar I
Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced during his annual January press conference that Arianespace will launch the ProtoStar I satellite for ProtoStar Ltd...

CASBAA Convention 2007: It's all about content
It's all about Content!’ – That's the theme for the CASBAA Convention 2007 to be staged October 30th to November 2nd at Hong Kong's Academy for Performing Arts...