SES and MultTV have announced a multi-year capacity agreement which will enable MultTV’s ISP customers to deliver TV content to their Internet subscribers via IP. MultTV, a Brazilian communications company that specialises in providing video services to smaller regional Internet Service Providers, will use C-band capacity on SES-6 to transmit a mix of approximately 60 […]
OneWeb and its Airbus production partner are putting the finishing touches to their satellite production line in Toulouse, France, and due to open for business on June 27th when the first ‘pilot’ satellite is expected to start its journey down the line on schedule for completion in October. OneWeb, however, has quite a way to […]
London-based satellite operator Inmarsat has ordered a 5th Global Xpress satellite. The surprise is that Inmarsat has switched supplier, from Boeing which built the original quartet to a new vendor, Thales Alenia Space of France. Intelsat has only just launched its 4th craft, on May 15th, and has yet to designate which part of the […]
Arianespace’s sixth successful launch this year also set a record in terms of weight lifted into orbit when it placed two satellites, owned by Eutelsat of Paris and ViaSat of California into a geostationary transfer orbit. The launch took place at 8.45pm local time in French Guiana on June 1st (01.45am June 2nd, Paris time). […]
International Launch Services (ILS), the commercial arm of Russia’s Proton rocket system, is to launch the much-delayed EchoStar XXI satellite next week on June 8th (at 06.45 Moscow time) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Echostar XXI has been waiting for the best part of a year for launch, and was needed on station – […]
SkyVision Global Networks, a global telecom engineering, satellite communication service provider and managed service supplier, has been awarded a contract by Global IP to supply, build and maintain the ground infrastructure of 11 Ka-band gateway stations in different European teleports for Global IP’s GiSat-1 satellite network. Construction of the turn-key gateway stations will begin in […]
According to Dataxis research, 314 million of TV households now receive TV signals via Free-to-Air satellite, which represents 18 per cent of the worldwide TV households. FTA satellite distribution is becoming more and more important and Dataxis forecasts that this ratio will reach 20 per cent in 2021. The penetration rate for FTA DTH varies […]
Avanti Communications warned investors and shareholders that despite winning some $25 million-worth of new contracts over the past two months, they were unlikely to generate “material revenue growth” during its second-half year of trading. The demand, such as it is, was mostly generated from new business in Europe and the Middle East. “The new contracts […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, has announced a new long-term partnership with multi-channel broadcaster Information TV to provide new channels to the UK DTH market. With Arqiva signed up to be the exclusive provider of technical services for the broadcaster, Information TV will now have a one-stop shop for all services relating to the […]
Investors and bond-holders in Intelsat have less than two days left, until midnight (New York-time) May 31st, to decide whether to accept the revised terms on offer from Japanese media conglomerate SoftBank in its proposed merger between Jersey-based OneWeb and Intelsat. The deadline was established back on May 17th, and was the fourth time that […]