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The broadband satellite network and service provider Hughes Network Systems won a U.S.$24 million contract with the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT). Under the contract terms, the company will supply and build an 11,000-site broadband satellite network, spanning the entire country and...
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The arrival of a new year brings with its numerous expectations of what would be the changes...
HNS Communications Americas paid R$ 145.2 million (US $91.5 million) and was the first one to to win a satellite orbital position that would cover Brazil. The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) on Aug. 30 auctioned the four satellite orbital positions. In total, companies...
China Daily | August 12, 2011 | An Baijie
BEIJING - China and Bolivia took further steps on Wednesday toward launching a telecommunications satellite for the South American country.
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Full article here via China Daily
Anatel announced that it will bid on four Brazilian satellite orbital positions in the bands C, Ku and Ka within 12 existing positions. The rules for the auction will be available beginning July 19 and proposals must be delivered by August 23.
Each orbital position...
Bangkok Post | May 31, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
Thaicom Plc, the country's sole private satellite operator, has unconditionally decided to build a sixth satellite despite receiving no incentives or a concession period extension.
However, the company, founded by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, hopes to raise...
SES World Skies | April 26, 2011 | Press Release
Corporate connectivity demand in Latin America drives agreements on three satellites
Washington, DC - April 26th, 2011 - Well positioned to serve emerging markets, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg...
America Movil | April 19, 2011 | Press Release
Mexico City, México, April 19, 2011. América Móvil, S.A.B. DE C.V. (“AMX”) (BMV: AMX; NYSE: AMX; Nasdaq: AMOV; LATIBEX: XAMXL), announced today that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with GE Satellite Holdings LLC and its affiliates...
Ericsson | April 11, 2011 | Press Release
SkyLife to offer enhanced HDTV to consumers
Strengthens vision for an all HD service by 2015
Capacity for over 150 new HD channels without additional transponder space
SkyLife, the Korean satellite broadcaster, has deployed an Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) video processing solution...
KVH | April 6, 2011 | Press Release
A combination of the fully licensed mini-VSAT Broadband service, a new Brazilian subsidiary, and in-country partners position KVH to support mariners throughout the growing Brazilian maritime market
MIDDLETOWN, RI – As part of an ongoing effort to offer...
SingTel | April 5, 2011 | Press Release
ST-2 scheduled to launch in May 2011
Singapore, 5 April 2011 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that its ST-2 satellite has completed assembly and integration, and successfully passed all major tests. The satellite is currently being...
SingTel | April 5, 2011 | Press Release
ST-2 scheduled to launch in May 2011
Singapore, 5 April 2011 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that its ST-2 satellite has completed assembly and integration, and successfully passed all major tests. The satellite is currently being...
TeleGeography | March 25, 2011
Indonesian online news agency Tempo Interactive reports that the country’s largest telecoms group PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) plans to launch the Telkom-3 satellite before the end of the year. According to the company’s corporation communications director, Eddy Kurnia, the USD200...
BNAmericas | March 23, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Latin American telcos will help ensure that satellite surpasses cable by 2015 in terms of high definition pay TV subscribers, but the long-term migration path for telcos is still IPTV, Carlos Blanco, analyst with Argentine telecoms consultancy...
Intelsat | March 21, 2011 | Press Release
Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year,...
Bangkok Post | March 23, 2011 | Chatrudee Theparat & Komsan Tortermvasana
The cabinet has approved a proposal by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry to build two satellites in order to retain the country's satellite orbital slot rights, due to expire next year.
It...
XinhuaNet | March 22, 2011 | Wang Guanqun
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhuanet) -- China's car owners are likely to start using a homegrown global positioning system next year, senior space technology experts said at the weekend.
Liu Jingnan, from the Chinese Academy of Engineering who is...
Intelsat | March 21, 2011 | Press Release
Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at...
Business News Americas | March 18, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Certain countries in the Caribbean are implementing an advanced communications system called Common Alerting Protocols (CAP), which allows automatic, multimedia distribution of information in the case of tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters, Bernardo Aliaga,...
SES World Skies | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced a new capacity deal with Axesat aimed at meeting escalating ...
Arianespace | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2.
Participating in this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace today announced that it...
Arianespace | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
ARSAT has once again selected Arianespace for its commercial launch services - this time to orbit the Argentinean satellite operator's second satellite, Arsat-2.
Participating in this week's Satellite 2011 conference in Washington, D.C., Arianespace today announced that it...
