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SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has announced that TIBA (Telepuerto Internacional Buenos Aires) has signed a new multi-transponder, multi-year agreement for satellite capacity on the NSS-806 satellite at the orbital location of 319.5 degrees East.
Read MoreComfort food such as that served at Boston Market restaurants takes on a new perspective — Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] announced that it has signed a contract to provide an upgraded satellite and hybrid data network to over 500 Boston Market restaurant locations across the United States.
Read MoreNumbers indicate that TS2 Satellite Technologies' network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15 thousand users of local broadband satellite connections providing high-speed Internet services for U.S. Army soldiers stationed in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Read MoreNagravision, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company and an independent provider of value-added content protection solutions and Solaris Mobile, themselves a joint venture of Eutelsat and SES Astra, has announced they are joining forces in the development of a harmonized ecosystem to optimize the delivery of mobile TV and broadband services.
Read MoreStratos Global Corporation has announced the commercial availability of StratosNet Accelerator, a free Internet-optimization application that helps customers reduce airtime costs required to operate BGAN, FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband mobile satellite services.
Read MoreViaccess, a France Telecom company, has been selected by? GlobeCast to provide its Viaccess Mobile Broadcast service protection solution based on the OMA BCAST Smartcard profile for use in a key trial platform to faciliate the commercial launch of this technology in Europe.
Read MoreSpace Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL) has shipped Telstar-11N to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched on the Land Launch system.
Read MoreSES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has signed a contract with Space Systems/Loral for the procurement of QuetzSat-1, a high-power communications satellite with coverage of Mexico, North America, and Central America.
Read MoreSatlynx, a GE company and a provider of satellite telecommunications, has announced a 6.7 million euros business agreement with the Polish Government via its military systems partner WZL (Wojskowe Zak³ady £¹cznoœci Nr 1) to provide a range of satellite equipment.
Read MoreVT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced that Australian Satellite Communications Pty Ltd (ASC) has chosen the iDirect Evolution platform to implement a DVB-S2 network covering Australia and New Zealand.
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