The GOP-led Congress thought it had the answer. Responding with indignant outrage to alleged technology transfers from U.S. satellite firms to China and Russia in recent years, Republicans passed legislation that shifted high-tech export oversight from the Commerce Department back to the State Department...
Having finally gotten back on track financially, ICO Global Communications hit another stumbling block last weekend when the launch of its first satellite placed the payload in the Pacific Ocean, rather than in low earth orbit as intended.The launch took place March 12 aboard...
BETHESDA, Md.-SkyBridge L.P. and the Boeing Co. signed a partnership agreement under which Boeing will become the launch service provider for SkyBridge as well as becoming an equity partner in the company, the two companies announced.Boeing will launch 40 of the 80 low-earth-orbit satellites...
LOS ANGELES-Sea Launch, the multinational ocean-based launch services company, Oct. 9 successfully launched its first commercial satellite-a DirecTV 1-R satellite from its Odyssey launch platform located on the equator, about 1,400 miles southeast of Hawaii.Hughes Space & Communications built the DirecTV satellite, which once...
NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide the power of Internet access to the rich and poor alike."The big social message...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is charging that private wireless receives a subsidy because it does not pay for its licenses. The enhanced specialized mobile radio operator made the remarks in reply comments filed at the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC is establishing a record on what...
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P. announced it launched four more low-earth-orbit satellites on July 10, bringing the total number of satellites in orbit to 28.The four satellites were launched on a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The company needs 32 satellites in orbit...
Every year about this time, I long to live in Europe, where holiday lasts for a month. I'm on the beach on the Riviera (because in fantasies, one can always afford the best), soaking up the rays. I'm also skinny, tan (yet cancer-free) and...
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P. announced the successful launch of four low-earth-orbit satellites, bringing the total in-orbit count to 24.The June 10 launch occurred aboard a Boeing Delta II launch rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. Globalstar said it needs only two more successful...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week continued taking steps to strengthen a weak and noncompetitive U.S. commercial space launch industry that has forced mobile satellite firms to contract overseas, a trend contributing to the export of American jobs and to alleged technology transfers to China and Russia.On...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules to implement mobile satellite service in the 2 GHz band.The notice of proposed rule making reviews service rules and seeks comments on 2 GHz MSS issues, including whether MSS operators should be required to deploy enhanced 911...
WASHINGTON-The fallout over alleged technology transfers, increasingly testing the mettle of fledgling mobile satellite firms, has prompted new bills to aid the U.S. space launch industry and to ban satellite exports to China altogether.Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), chairman of the...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
WASHINGTON-The Boeing Co. was fined $10 million as part of an agreement with the State Department covering improper information transfers to Russian and Ukraine partners in a venture to launch rockets with communications satellites from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean.When Boeing announced...
WASHINGTON-Boeing Co.'s Sea Launch program has received the go-ahead from the Department of State for a proposed launch early next year, Boeing announced last week. The State Department "has terminated its suspension of The Boeing Company's export license on the Sea Launch program," Boeing...
WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee, amid legislation to shift satellite export licensing from the Commerce Department to the State Department and new signs that China plans to curtail wireless telecom trade, last week downplayed the prospect of including alleged technology transfers in any impeachment inquiry...
U.S. stock markets, like most markets around the world, last week experienced a roller-coaster ride that left many companies with no choice but to hold on and hope for the best.Wireless stocks were not immune to the sudden drop Monday brought on by the...
The U.S. State Department suspended work July 27 on an international project aimed at launching communications satellite-carrying rockets from a floating launch pad near the equator, fearing American technology secrets may have been compromised, according to The Washington Post.The Sea Launch venture, 40-percent owned...
Satellite-based communications is all the buzz in the telecom industry today, with hopeful mobile satellite services providers and terrestrial-based telcos alike shooting satellites into orbit with unprecedented regularity.Yet the rush of commercial satellite launches has placed the current presidential administration in hot water with...
DENVER, United States-U.S.-based Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. announced in June they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system. The Boeing Co., a leading aerospace company, and satellite manufacturer Matra Marconi Space, also will be...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite communications system using digital wireless technology developed by Motorola Inc. was demonstrated with phone calls placed on the system last Wednesday night, following the completion of the satellite-launching phase of the network earlier in the week.Nearly 150 service providers and...
Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. last week announced they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system.The Boeing Co., a leading aerospace company, and satellite manufacturer Matra Marconi Space, will round out the team of founding...
NEW YORK-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc., Washington, D.C., announced The Boeing Co. is to be the system integrator for the new Ellipso mobile satellite system in a contract valued at more than $1.4 billion.The Ellipso system, which could make its commercial debut as early as...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
