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Vizada is extending its popular Trade-Up to Iridium promotion based on feedback from Service Providers — due to the overwhelming success of last year’s promotion, Vizada is bringing back the the program, which now runs through September 30, 2009.
Read MoreSARS Corp. (OTCBB: SARO.OTC) (“SARS”), together with its marketing partner, Securewest International, Inc. (“Securewest International”) will integrate the SkyWave Mobile Communication Inc.(“SkyWave”) Long Range Identification Tracking (“LRIT”) solution with the SARS asset tracking and management systems.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has appointed Satcom Direct as a value-added reseller and customer support liaison for its new Yonder Mobile Broadband Service, offering data and voice communication services for corporate, business, and military aircraft.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., won $1.7 million in equipment orders from a service provider who will use the equipment to support satellite-based cellular backhaul network expansions in South America.
Read MoreSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms.
Read MoreAt CabSat, XipLink announced Prologix as the latest addition to its global network of Value Added Distributors.
Read MoreEntertainment Studios has selected electronic media services provider Crawford Communications, Inc. for its transmission of six H) television networks, initially launching on Verizon’s FiOS TV.
Read MoreHarris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] will provide an integrated large-scale broadcast solution to the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) as part of a major facility upgrade that includes automation, servers, core processing, multiviewers, test and measurement, branding and routers.
Read MoreVT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems),has announced that Jordan-based Smartlink Communications, a newly established satellite network operator, has chosen iDirect’s Intelligent Platform to launch a satellite broadband service covering the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe based on the DVB-S2 standard with Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM).
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA has announced the second of three, next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will undergo final preparations for launch this spring.
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