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SES eyes German broadband market

SES Broadband Services is expanding its relationship with Orbitcom to boost sales of its Astra Connect for German potential Internet and broadband communities. SES says that the new deal follows Orbitcom’s successful delivery of the Astra Connect service, which provides broadband Internet to individual households and businesses via a satellite dish. The partnership, which has […]

September 25, 2014By Chris Forrester

MENA anti-piracy operation grows

The Middle East’s Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition, meeting in Cairo, say that their organisation has grown by six new members, including Rotana, ART, IAA, the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce, Gulfsat and WWE. The Coalition also says that as a result of their efforts, 15 channels have been taken off air because of piracy in their […]

September 24, 2014

Telstra accelerates 4G mobile service

Australians will soon have access to one of the fastest mobile networks in the world, with Telstra accelerating the launch of 4G services on the newly available 700 MHz band. Telstra has revealed that it plans to: – Expand total 4G coverage to reach 90 per cent of the Australian population by the end of […]

September 11, 2014

ViaSat blasts high-demand downloads

Broadband satellite operator ViaSat is removing all limits to its top-of-the-range ‘Exede’ high-speed Internet service.  ViaSat’s ‘Freedom’ scheme allows users up to 150 GBs of data per month without any caps, and more than suitable for streaming movies and the like. The new service goes live on August 18th, and is priced extremely competitively at […]

August 13, 2014By Chris Forrester

ND SatCom Ka2Go – Terminal receives Eutelsat type approval

ND SatCom has received type approval for its Ka2Go -Terminal for Eutelsat Broadband Services. Eutelsat is one of the world’s leading satellite operators delivering service into 150 countries via 37 satellites. Ka2Go – Terminal has been awarded to be the system with the most accurate pointing among of all type approved Ka-band auto-deploy systems so […]

July 28, 2014

Liquid Telecom, Eutelsat extend relationship

Liquid Telecom, a data, voice and IP provider in Africa, is stepping up resources leased from Eutelsat Communications to meet increasing demand for IP connectivity from a broad portfolio of clients that include national parks, out of town offices and remote mining and exploration companies. Liquid Telecom and Eutelsat have extended their relationship to 2019 […]

July 18, 2014

ViaSat and Eutelsat link Ka-band networks

ViaSat and Eutelsat have entered into a pioneering agreement that will enable service access and roaming on each other’s high-capacity satellite networks (Ka-Sat for Eutelsat and ViaSat-1 for ViaSat). Both Ka-band networks, representing well over half of all Ka-band capacity on orbit worldwide, share the same high-capacity satellite ecosystem, enabled by the ViaSat Broadband System, […]

July 1, 2014

Astra Connect broadband for UK ‘final 5%’

SES Broadband Services (SBBS) announced its Astra Connect solution will be used as part of a pilot program to connect homes and businesses in the UK which cannot benefit from a Fibre-to-the-Cabinet deployment due to their remote locations. The Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport selected SBBS’ distribution partner Satellite Internet to receive a […]

June 27, 2014

Consumer group: ‘AT&T, DirecTV deal anti-competitive’

US public interest group Public Knowledge is calling on Congress to be vigilant as multiple mergers come before it in the coming months. Public Knowledge senior staff attorney John Bergmayer is testifying June 24 before the House Judiciary Committee in the hearing titled ‘The Proposed Merger of AT&T and DirecTV’. In Bergmayer’s testimony, he will […]

June 24, 2014By Colin Mann

Dutch digital connections up to 6.72m

The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 0.9 per cent during the first quarter of this year to 6.72 million on 31 March, according to Telecompaper. The total TV connections grew during the quarter to 7.74 million. The share of digital TV on the whole TV market has grown to 86.8 […]

June 20, 2014