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CET Teleport has acquired from Stratos GmbH (Stratos) its interest in the former Deutsche Telecom teleport located near Hameln in Germany. What this translates out to mean is that under terms of the deal, CET Teleport will continue to service the Stratos customer networks currently running at the Teleport to the same standards of professionalism and with the same commitments presently in place.
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Read MoreAir Force Lt. Gen. Charles E. Croom Jr. retired from the Air Force and stepped down as director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and as commander of the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations during a July 22nd ceremony at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C.
Read MoreAs we have reported previously, Harbinger Capital Partners Fund has ownership intent for Inmarsat.
Read MoreThuraya's newly launched ThurayaIP solution has certainly been well received. Over the last few weeks there have been eight distribution agreements signed for Thuraya's broadband terminals.
Read MoreIt looks like they've struck some kind of an agreement after all as SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (SkyTerra) and Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) announced that the Harbinger Capital Partners Funds (Harbinger) has agreed to provide $500 million of debt financing to fund SkyTerra's business plan through the third quarter of 2010.
Read MoreA report from Strategy Analytics forecast that regulatory compliance will contribute to driving the global mobile to machine (M2M) market to reach $57 billion by 2014. This is up from its current status of under $16 billion in 2008.
Read MoreTom Williams is the author of the soon-to-be-released fiction adventure, Lost and Found, to be published by Arche Books.
Read MoreAstrium, foreseeing the Earth observation industry undergoing significant change has, in the process, announced the purchase of further shares in Spot Image from the French Space Agency (CNES). This is a significant deal resulting in Astrium holding 81 percent of Spot Image, and therefore becoming the majority shareholder.
Read MoreKayser-Threde GmbH will be the prime contractor for the space and ground segment, as well as launch services, for the satellite mission TET-1 from the Space Agency of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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