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Thuraya's results proved so successful with their ThurayaLocateTM service launched in August this year that there are now two more location services — ThurayaAssistTM and ThurayaRelayTM — deployed on the GPS feature built in Thuraya handsets.
Read MoreUnderwater terrorism is the new worry for the Indian Navy even as it struggles to wriggle out of the Mumbai embarrassment.
Read MoreAsia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced B4U Broadband (India) Private Limited (B4U) has signed a contract to deliver two Hindi television channels, B4U Movies and B4U Music, through AsiaSat’s C-band full transponder MCPC (Multiple Channels per Carrier) platform on AsiaSat-3S.
Read MoreNewtec has announced the ASTRA2Connect network of distribution partners of SES ASTRA is further being expanded with new ISPs in the U.K. and Spain, and also has concluded an important deal with the Dutch Federation of Agriculture and Horticulture.
Read MoreBGAN is helping the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan keep in touch with loved ones back home this Christmas.
Read MoreAn Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites for Eutelsat into geostationary transfer orbits.
Read MoreThe ELA-3 launch zone at Europe’s Spaceport welcomed its 42nd Ariane 5 today as the heavy-lift vehicle with Eutelsat’s HOT BIRD™ 9 and W2M satellites rolled out for a liftoff tomorrow evening on the final Arianespace mission of 2008. This was after the launch readiness review, which was held at the Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
Read MoreBroadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom services provider, has selected Broadcom’s highly integrated satellite set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to power its direct-to-home (DTH) TV services, Airtel digital TV.
Read MoreWell over 110 million people worldwide speak Punjabi, and now the first Punjabi network in America launches with SES AMERICOM a 24-hour news/entertainment channel devoted to millions of Punjabi-speaking people living in the U.S.
Read MoreBET Networks is going offer top shows such as 106 & Park, College Hill, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is to African-audiences as part of a multiplatform offering with sub-Saharan Africa-targeted satellite services GTV and Multichoice Africa Limited.
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