ISCe Is Impressive! Nearly seven hundred satellite industry executives and military/government leaders spent three days interacting and discussing key industry issues, policies, opportunities, and challenges in San Diego last week during Hannover Fairs’ seventh annual ISCe conference. With its program focus on “Access to SATCOM for the Next Decade”, ISCe 2008 provided a unique forum for military SATCOM users and planners and commercial SATCOM products and service providers to examine the ever-increasing importance of satellites in the global information and war fighting grid. Several themes dominated ISCe 2008: the critical need for commercial bandwidth and services to support the military and its warfighters; the convergence of satellite communications with fixed, mobile and wireless networks; and the increasingly crucial role played by integrators of satellite services to deliver solutions to commercial and government customers. Next up: October 14th, the third annual ISCe Satellite Investment Symposium (ISIS NYC 08) at the 3 West Club in Manhattan.- Five SatTV Licenses OK’d By Macedonia Macedonia‘s State Broadcasting Council has approved five licences for satellite TV channels, announcing at the same time a public competition for a further eight licenses. The council decided to grant licences to the TV stations Alfa, Kanal 5, Sky Net, A2 and Era. Another four applicants fulfilled the requirements, but were denied licences because of the limited number that were planned. They included Tinex, a group comprised of broker houses and investment fund, George Atanasovski and Bojo Andreevski. Licences for special format satellite broadcasting have been issued to the TV station Sitel and another two applicants.
Thuraya Thoroughly Sat’d Up Thuraya is one of the large exhibitors at CommunicAsia Exhibition and Conference 2008, being held in Singapore from June 17th through the 20th. The company is going to showcase their new marine terminal, ThurayaIP, rural telephony products, and other satellite-related applications. The company recently announced the commercial readiness of its third satellite (Thuraya-3) after its successful launch on January 15th. The UAE-based satellite telecom operator currently has the world’s largest subscriber based for handheld satellite services. Thuraya has now embarked upon a major expansion whereby its coverage would be increased to nearly 170 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia, with some 4.5 billion people under its footprint. Thuraya will be holding forth in Hall 6, Stand GB3-01—UAE
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