Chris Forrester is one of the most experienced and highly regarded journalists in the field. His insight and analysis, particularly in the satellite and pay-TV arena, is highly prized. He has written for all the major business journals in the sector as well as several national newspapers.
GE Satcom, an old-established satellite services provider, and owner of the Satlynx two-way broadband services, has changed its name to Signalhorn. Satlynx/Signalhorn has a wide portfolio of satellite-based services in the Government, Defence, Enterprise, Maritime, and Oil & Gas customers totalling more than 300 clients and over 10,000 remote sites. The change of ownership took […]
Last Friday, both SES and Eutelsat delivered major sets of financial numbers. SES and Eutelsat issued cautious statements, and were marked down by the market. Investment bank Morgan Stanley has put out reports on both satellite operators. The bank said that Eutelsat’s ‘prudent’ statement “put a damper on its stock price” as CEO Michel de […]
Deepak Mathur, SES’s SVP/Commercial for Asia-Pac and the Middle East, says that India’s seven competing DTH broadcasters are likely to add more than 25 million new subscribers between now and 2016. Today’s DTH numbers total more than 44.4 million (as at November 30 2011). Mathur says that India is now the largest DTH “bastion” in […]
Spacecom’s Amos 5, launched on December 11th 2011 by ILS from Baikonur, was commercialised on January 25th. Some C-band clients have recently been relocating from Spacecom’s temporary leased capacity (the former AsiaSat-2) to the new satellite at 17 deg East. However, there are also further considerable expansion plans afoot with rumours that a new satellite […]
Millionaire Elon Musk, who is backing a new lower-cost satellite launching rocket system, is planning a third IPO to raise extra cash for the venture. Musk is also financing the development of the all-electric Tesla car, which was Musk’s first IPO. His second IPO is imminent and covers his SolarCity project in California. South African-born […]
Back in November, Norbert Holzle was departing from SES as the satellite operator’s SVP/commercial for Europe. Now, seemingly, it is all change and Holzle is to stay on. This means that Ferenc Szelényi, only officially appointed on November 30th, is to step aside and leave the company to “pursue other business opportunities”. An […]
Barely a week goes by without someone suggesting that DVR manufacturer TiVo is about to be taken over. Assorted names have been mentioned, not least one or other of the EchoStar family of companies, in EchoStar’s case if only to bring the – now ended – IP litigation to an end. Other would-be ‘buyers’ have […]
Kenya is proving to be something of a graveyard for pay-TV operators. Just over two years ago it was GTV which went bust. Now it is Smart TV which has gone off air, with backers Next Generation Broadcasting having pulled out of the joint-venture with Transmex. GTV was a DTH player while Smart TV is […]
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), one of the world’s most important satellite builders, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging patent infringements. The plaintiff is ViaSat, a California-based satellite services operator best known for its WildBlue broadband-by-satellite businesses. The writ argues that SS/L used ViaSat-originated technologies in other satellites without ViaSat’s knowledge or approval. ViaSat says that […]
SES and Eutelsat, Europe’s two satellite giants, are again arguing over the size of their organisations. A few days ago Eutelsat proudly claimed it was now carrying more than 4,000 channels. Today (February 3rd), up pops a press release from SES reminding us that they are carrying more than ,5200 channels, of which more than […]
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