Australia-based NewSat is having a tough time, not helped by the on-going delays to its fresh bulk capacity order on MEASAT 3b, which is suffering a launch delay until September. On June 6th NewSat’s board of directors agreed to salary cuts of 10-25 percent as the business suffered the downturn and in particular cutbacks of […]
A week ago it was Arabsat that was very publicly naming Ethiopia as the source of multiple jamming sessions to its broadcast channels. Now Eutelsat is piling on the pressure, also naming that Ethiopia is guilty of deliberate jamming, and of ramping up the signal jamming so that in 2013 it accounted for some 15 […]
Yamal-201, a satellite serving Russia and owned by Gazprom Satellite Systems, has suffered technical problems. Some reports say it has failed completely. Reportedly its transponders were switched off on June 5, and its broadcasting clients switched to other satellites in particular the Yamal-300 craft which is co-located with Yamal-201. Yamal-201 operated from the 90 deg […]
Intelsat, a global provider of satellite services, has signed a multi-year agreement with Slovak Telekom, the largest Slovak multimedia operator, to expand Slovak Telekom’s DTH services in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). As part of the agreement, Slovak Telekom is operating multiple transponders at the Intelsat 1˚ West premier video neighbourhood. In addition, Intelsat’s terrestrial […]
The revenue of English Premier League clubs broke the £3 billion (€3.7bn) mark for the first time in the 2013-14 season, according to consultancy firm Deloitte. Dan Jones, head of Deloitte’s sports team, said
Two of the world’s major satellite launch businesses are stymied through no real fault of their own. International Launch Services (ILS) is stuck waiting for the official report into last month’s catastrophic Proton launch failure (which it had no control over), while France’s Arianespace rocket system is waiting while modifications are made to an Optus […]
Satellite operator MEASAT has confirmed that the launch of the MEASAT-3b craft has been rescheduled to September 2014. MEASAT-3b will remain in storage at the European Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana awaiting launch. MEASAT-3b had previously been scheduled for launch on 6 June 2014 GFT. The postponement was called after Optus Networks informed launch service provider […]
Arabsat is linking with Inmarsat to provide a joint-venture satellite at Arabsat-owned Hellas-Sat’s orbital slot. The twin-mission spacecraft will supply Inmarsat with extra, and valuable, S-band capacity for aircraft users to tap into in-flight services. The second mission will add 44 Ku-band transponders – and dubbed Hellas-Sat 3 – and part-replace the capacity on Hellas-Sat […]
Coincidentally on the very day that Worldspace founder Noah Samara announced his new e-learning company for India, Worldspace Inc was formally struck off by the SEC. “The time for filing a petition for review of the initial decision in this proceeding has expired. No such petition has been filed by WorldSpace, Inc., and the Commission […]
NSR’s newly released Wireless Backhaul, Trunking and Video Offload via Satellite, 8th Edition finds the Asian region dominating the wireless backhaul, trunking and video offload market on an annualised basis, leading to over 27 per cent of cumulative global revenues from 2013-2023. The large user base, the topographic challenges and key markets that include Australia, […]