Mark Rigolle, formerly SES’ chief financial officer, and more recently CEO at O3b where SES has an important 34 per cent stake, is not rejoining the satellite operator. This is directly contrary to a statement issued by Rigolle as part of his hand-over to O3b’s new CEO. Rigolle successfully supervised the raising of $1.2 billion […]
Noorsat, which rents capacity and resells it over the Middle East, is looking to buy its own satellite. Noorsat is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s giant Mawarid Group, and by and large leases capacity from Eutelsat. Omar Shoter, CEO at Noorsat, has reportedly said the company is investigating the possibility of launching its own […]
Intelsat has formed an alliance with BT that expands the reach of its IntelsatONE terrestrial network to new locations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Intelsat and BT media fibre alliance interconnects Intelsat’s MPLS-based IntelsatONE fiber network, which consists of fibre and points of presence (PoPs) located in major cities and teleports with BT’s MPLS-based […]
Eutelsat used the opening day of Washington Satellite 2011 to confirm a three-year order for capacity on its giant Ka-Sat craft. The deal is with Germany’s Sat Internet Services which has contracted for three-years of capacity on the satellite for Eutelsat’s Tooway broadband-by-satellite product. Eutelsat says there is a significant market opportunity for satellite broadband […]
SES used the Washington Satellite 2011 show to announce that they would be using Space X’s innovative Falcon 9 rocket to launch an upcoming satellite. Space X is backed by billionaire Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, and the overall concept is to use – wherever possible – production line-type manufacturing techniques to lower the overall […]
MBC-backed Arabic news channel Alarabiya continues to suffer deliberate signal jamming, while an Al Jazeera cameraman lost his life in Libya on Saturday. Earlier last week a BBC Arabic crew were beaten up by Libyan government supporters. MBC on Saturday night named Libyan intelligence units for continuing to deliberately jam its satellite signals on Nilesat. […]
MBC bouquet of a dozen channels went off air on Tuesday evening, including its all-important Al Arabiya news channel. As at Thursday March 10th they were still off air as far as their normal frequencies are concerned, although they are now retransmitting over the region with new frequencies. It would seem the jamming is coming […]
BSkyB and Channel 4 have confirmed they have submitted expressions of interest in the proposed national TV network that’s at the centre of UK Culture Secretary’s Jeremy Hunt’s plan to deliver local news. BSkyB said it is interested in assisting local television through broadband distribution, by viewers using the existing yellow button on the electronic […]
Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services has reported results for the three months and year ended December 31st, 2010. Intelsat reported revenue of $644.0 million and a net loss of $115.8 million for the three months ended December 31st, 2010. It reported revenue of $2.5 billion and a net loss of $505.5 […]
Effective immediately, all HBO and Cinemax channels in Poland are now available in HD. The new channels have the same programming offer and scheduling as the ones in SD. HBO and Cinemax are available in HD on DTH platforms Cyfra+, Cyfrowy Polsat and n. HBO is in talks with other operators about introducing these channels […]