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MultiChoice selects Intelsat to support South African mobile broadcast TV trial
Intelsat announced that MultiChoice, a leading South African direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, selected Intelsat to support its mobile broadcast TV trial in the metropolitan areas of Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria and Cape Town. The trial seeks to refine the transmission of Digital Video Broadcasting to Handheld (DVB-H) technology as well as understand more about the viewing patterns and content preferences of subscribers for mobile TV...

Globecomm Systems announces contracts valued at $5.0 million
Globecomm Systems a global provider of end-to-end value-added satellite-based communications solutions, announced that the Company has been awarded two contracts valued at $5.0 million to design, install and commission direct-to-home (DTH) video infrastructure in Asia...

ASTRA 1L scheduled for 3 May 2007 from Kourou
SES ASTRA has announced that the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 1L onboard an Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled for 3 May 2007 from the launch site of Kourou, French Guiana. ASTRA 1L is the 9th ASTRA satellite launched with Arianespace and the 3rd ASTRA satellite launched with an Ariane 5 rocket...

Three TBS channels join Eutelsat KabelKiosk platform
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a major producer of news and entertainment product and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry, has selected Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) to supply capacity and services for delivering three of its flagship entertainment channels, Boomerang, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), to cable networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg...

Telenor Satellite Services agrees to extend Iridium quality of service offer
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway confirmed that it is extending Iridium Satellite's "Network Quality Guarantee” program to its global distribution network of service providers...

IPSTAR signs BayCity Communications Ltd
IPSTAR New Zealand Ltd. (IPNZ), a subsidiary of Shin Satellite Plc. ("SATTEL") announced that the Company has signed an exclusive contract with BayCity Communications Limited as the exclusive National Service Operator (NSO) for IPSTAR services throughout New Zealand...

IDC receives an order for an additional 400 DVB-S2 receivers from Access Integrated Technologies
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) announced that it has received an order for an additional 400 DVB-S2 receivers from Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (AccessIT) (NASDAQ:AIXD), a leading provider of digital cinema service. AccessIT’s Digital Cinema Deployment program is the first large-scale turnkey digital cinema deployment—enabling delivery of movies, advertisements, and alternative content including live events to theatres...

Hughes delivers highly competitive DSL coverage in the US
Just announced, Hughes Network Systems is offering enterprises nationwide broadband coverage with a choice of DSL and/or satellite technologies from a single vendor experienced in managing and operating global data networks...

Expand Networks Compass Platform for telemetry testing and optimizing satellite bandwidth selected to support Orbital Express Demonstration
Expand Networks, recently positioned in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2006, today announced that Boeing Advanced Systems has selected Expand’s Compass Platform for testing and optimization of VoIP and telemetry data for satellite networks to support the Orbital Express demonstration mission...

Zonemedia partners with RRSat
RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ:RRST), a rapidly growing provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced that Zonemedia has selected RRSat for distribution of its reality TV channel, Zone Reality, into Asia using Intelsat-10 (PAS-10) satellite...

World Market Survey of satellites to be built and launched by 2016
In the newly-released 2007 edition of the World Market Survey of Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2016, we anticipate that governments around the world will launch a total of 616 satellites over the next ten years, 32% more than in the last decade. Governments will remain the largest customers in the space industry with two-thirds of the 960 satellites to be launched worldwide between 2007 and 2016, the remaining being commercial customers...

Radyne receives high speed modem order
Radyne Corporation(Nasdaq:RADN) announced today that it has received an order for $1 million of its new DMD-50 high speed satellite modem from an Asian defense agency. The DMD-50 is one of Radyne's new generation of modems that addresses the need for cost-effective, high-speed communications supporting up to 50 Mbps...

Marlink opens new regional operations center in Houston
Marlink, a leading supplier of integrated satellite communications equipment and network services has opened an expanded regional operations center in Houston, Texas to meet growing demand from it's maritime and offshore industry customers...

Arianespace begins its 2007 mission activity with a successful dual-payload launch
Ariane 5 underscored its mission capability and operational maturity with the successful dual-passenger mission, which placed the Skynet 5A and INSAT 4B satellites into geostationary transfer orbit...

Arqiva keeps CNBC News up to date across Europe
Arqiva has extended its contract with CNBC Europe, the leading pan-European business and financial TV network, to provide a satellite communications system to link up six of its major European studios...