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Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, and several other US private investors are today due to announce a Dollars 315m (Pounds 210m) investment in ICO, a London-based satellite phone [...]

Try again Cable television, cellular telephony and now satellite communications. It looks like the third time around for Craig McCaw, the entrepreneur whose timely intervention promises salvation for ICO, the [...]

Leo and Meo (Low earth orbit and Medium earth orbit) satellite systems, conceived in the late 1980s when few expected the success of terrestrial cellular systems, were originally designed for [...]

Husky voices Telecoms companies are going to the races. First ICO Global Communications, the hand-held satellite phone group, sponsors Richard Branson's balloon, and then Cable & Wireless does the same [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The WorldSpace Corporation today announced that three veteran executives from the fields of marketing, engineering, and finance have accepted senior positions at the international satellite [...]

DENPASAR, Aug 04, 1999 In an effort to render enhanced roaming service facilities to its customers, PT Excelkomindo Pratama (XL) has joined up co-operation with ICO Global Communication, a satellite-based [...]

Our Bureau NEW DELHI, July 21 VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has received formal approval from the Ministry of Communications for the operation of the ICO Global Satellite Access Node [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-20 May 1999-ICO: ICO investors form European entity to act as ICO service partner (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:200599 London -- ICO Global Communications, the global mobile communications company, [...]

HAMPTON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1999-- Direct Vendors, Local VARs, and Inacom Rated Best Overall Channel Partners Among Corporate End Users; Relationship Problems Between Channels and Systems Vendors Intensify According to [...]

MUMBAI, Feb 23, 1999 India's telecom giant Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) and ICO Global Communicatoins, the global mobile satellite communication company, signed a pre-launch agreement (PLA) here on Monday, [...]

HONG KONG, CHINA, 1999 JAN 12 (NB) -- By Staff, IT Daily. Telecom company ICO has opened a Greater China office in Beijing, which will oversee operations in Hong Kong, […]

M2 PRESSWIRE-17 December 1998-ICO: ICO Global balloon ready for launch on Friday 18th December (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:161298 The ICO Global balloon - Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-24 November 1998-TAYLOR NELSON: ICO calls up Harris for global telecoms study (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:181198 Harris Research, part of Taylor Nelson Sofres plc, has announced that it [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-13 October 1998-NEC: NEC and ICO's relationship grows from strength to strength (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:131098 NEC Corporation has announced the completion of 12 TT&C RFTs (Telemetry Tracking [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-12 October 1998-ICO: Nera to supply handsets and marine units to ICO (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:091098 ICO Global Communications, the global mobile communications company, signed a contract with [...]

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1998--ICO, the global mobile communications company, has signed an agreement with its Brazilian service partner, Globopar, for the construction of a satellite ground station at Dende, Rio [...]

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 1998--ICO, the global mobile communications company, Thursday announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with La Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones de Uruguay (Antel) for distribution [...]

ATC Teleports said it acquired ICG Satellite Services and its subsidiary Maritime Telecommunications Networks for $100 million cash. Acquisition enables ATC to add ICG teleport facility in Holmdel, N.J., and [...]

Globalstar said June 23 it had secured $500 million line of credit underwritten by Bank of America. It said 2 of its subsidiaries, one of which is reported to be [...]

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-(C) 1994-9 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Six cellular network operators have signed up to the ICOroam service operated by ICO, a provider of inter-standard roaming services to GSM subscribers. This brings [...]

Motorola's well-publicized bid tobecomethefirst worldwidesatellitephonenetwork has stalled as users are not signing up in numbers that were forecasted. We fault the pricey entry fee: $3000 and up for a phone, [...]