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Primestar Inc. [TSATA] is facing the critical need to reassess its plan to upgrade the medium-powered direct-to-home (DTH) satellite service it offers consumers via 36-inch satellite dishes. The abrupt reality […]

Comsat CEO Alewine Warns Of 'Catastrophic' Consequences The simmering feud between Comsat Corp. [CQ] and PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] was played out on Capitol Hill July 30 as top executives of […]

The U.S. government is preparing to block Intelsat - the world's largest satellite operator - from gaining control of the coveted 41 [degrees] W orbital slot used by tiny Columbia […]

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Indiana has issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Fort Wayne-based Rimsat Ltd. to stop the Russian Space Agency (RSA) from seizing two Gorizont satellites […]

A deep-pocketed Malaysian investor who pumped in $38 million to help launch Rimsat Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against the company's directors, advisors and others - seeking actual damages of […]

SATELLITE NEWS has learned exclusively that Richard Li, founder of Star TV and the second son of one of Hong Kong's wealthiest men, has formed a new venture called Pacific […]

[Satellite News 05-27-09] As a result of a May 15 decision from the European Commission (EC) awarding Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile exclusive licenses to operate S-band mobile satellite services (MSS) […]

The U.S. Appeals Court in New York has ruled that Greenwich, Conn.-based PanAmSat cannot sue Comsat Corp. for antitrust violations in its role as the U.S. Signatory to Intelsat. However, […]

[Satellite News 11-05-08] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has filed lawsuits against Mivtach Shamir Holdings Ltd., LR Group Ltd., Gores Capital Partners II L.P, and DGB Investments Inc., accusing the companies […]

[Satellite News 11-04-08] Sirius XM Satellite Radio has been sued by Save Sirius, a group formed by 500 shareholders of the formerly independent Sirius Satellite Radio. The group charges top […]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. asked a federal judge to throw out a copyright lawsuit filed by the recording industry over a portable radio that also can store recorded music. […]

SIRI, XMSR XM Satellite Radio continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons, and the company's woes are having an impact on the stock prices of both XM and rival […]

Inmarsat's September filing with the U.S. government seeking authorization to provide mobile satellite services (MSS) in the 2-gigahertz (GHz) band has brought accusations that the satellite operator is looking to […]

Orbcomm Asia Ltd. filed a $50 million breach of contract lawsuit earlier this month against Orbcomm Inc. and its Orbcomm LLC and Orbcomm Holdings LLC affiliates. The suit alleges Orbcomm […]

Loral Space & Communications Ltd. moved a step closer to emerging from bankruptcy when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved, June 1, the company's […]

By Christopher D. Bredt and Robert Dawkins, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP If asked, most people would tell you they believe it is wrong to steal, and thieves should go to […]

New York's Loral Space & Communications [LOR] is acknowledging for the first time that claims against it by France-based Alcatel Space could have a "material" impact on its financial picture. […]

StarMD has filed a suit in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas against Globalstar USA, a provider of satellite-based handheld communications services, alleging breach of contract and wrongful interference with […]

Loral Space & Communications [LOR] last week resolved a big question about its financial situation by settling a case with the U.S. government over allegations that it transferred sensitive technology […]

The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) Acting President Andy Wright objected to a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold a lower court's ruling backing a "must carry" […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week announced the formation of an internal agency committee that will determine whether EchoStar Communications Corp.'s [DISH] proposed acquisition of Hughes Electronics Corp. […]

Pegasus Communications Corp. [PGTV] Chairman and CEO Mark Pagon warned Thursday evening that his company's exclusive pact to sell DirecTV Inc. services in rural areas must be honored by EchoStar […]

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] finally received payment last Tuesday on a $53 million award mandated by a three-member panel last July stemming from a dispute with European satellite manufacturer […]

With a Sept. 25 court date looming for oral arguments in the DBS industry's appeal to find the Satellite Home Improvement Viewer Act (SHIVA) unconstitutional, the controversy was fueled last […]

The risky nature of the satellite and space businesses that Loral Space and Communications [LOR] is pursuing has left the company saddled with legal disputes, solar array problems with 11 […]

Helius Inc. said it has been issued a U.S. patent on a variety of Internet-via-satellite applications, including Internet multicast routing technology to multiple clients over a local area network and […]

Disgruntled investors in financially struggling mobile satellite phone service Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] filed lawsuits against the company late last week, but the concern's U.S. service provider, Globalstar USA, juxtaposed the […]

The already-combative relationship between the nation's largest satellite TV service, DirecTv Inc. [GMH], and its partners in providing rural TV services, worsened last week when a tentative court order concerning […]

A back-up satellite that Space Systems/Loral was building for Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [SIRI] has sustained significant damage in a manufacturing mishap that will delay its scheduled delivery beyond December […]

TRW Inc. [TRW] and a host of satellite companies are trying to thwart efforts initiated by the fixed wireless industry to gain increased spectrum in the V-band that otherwise could […]

ICO Global Communications Ltd. [ICOGF] Friday became the second global, mobile satellite company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection within the past two weeks. The filing is intended [...]

The requests satellite industry executives receive from their local business communities need to be scrutinized carefully. The consequences of fulfilling illegal ones can be jail time and a big fine. […]

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) sued DirecTv Inc. [GMH], the No. 1 provider of satellite TV services in the United States, for allegedly denying the cooperative its right to […]

After nearly five grinding years of a federal government investigation, former satellite industry executive Jeffrey Paul Sudikoff, 43, pleaded guilty to three of 14 counts that had been leveled against […]

One-time accounting charges that hurt the fourth quarter earnings of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] and led to the filing of a class action shareholder lawsuit last week (CT, 2/22) are […]

The threatened loss of network signals for an estimated 1 million satellite TV subscribers by Feb. 28 and 1.2 million other subscribers by April 30 spurred the scheduling of two […]

A threat that one million rural satellite TV viewers could lose their network signals has spurred industry officials to ask Congress to stay the July preliminary injunction from a federal […]

The FCC last week granted Comsat Corp.'s [CQ] request to reduce the notice period for filing full-time video tariffs, cutting the time from 45 days to two weeks. The move […]

Rimsat Ltd., the small, upstart satellite company located in Fort Wayne, Ind., is winning support from some key members of Congress who favor linking resolution of the company's protracted dispute […]

PEPINSTER, Belgium--With last year's Tonga-Indonesia orbital dispute settled, a new orbital position turf battle is brewing over Norwegian skies. The newest dispute centers around the Marco Polo 1 and 2 […]

As we went to press last Friday, SATELLITE NEWS learned that Pasadena, Calif.-based Radio Satellite Corp. (RSC) has sued Washington, D.C.-based American Mobile Satellite Corp. (AMSC) for $200 million in […]

United States Satellite Broadcasting [USSB] reached a settlement in principle with upstate New York satellite dealer Northern Tek Inc. to stop the sale of satellite receiving equipment to Canadians who [...]

The saga of when nearly one million rural satellite television viewers will lose their network signals following a recent ruling by a federal judge in Miami increasingly looks like it […]

Comsat Corp. [CQ] filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Md., against three former executives who recently left to join a competitor, Stratos Mobile Networks. The lawsuit […]

Broadcasters led by CBS and Fox won a preliminary injunction from a U.S. District Court judge in Southern Florida last week to stop PrimeTime 24 from delivering signals from those [...]

IDB Mobile, a Bethesda, Md.-based satellite services provider, is likely to face further legal action from Comsat Corp. [CQ], even though a U.S. district court Judge ruled IDB Mobile did […]

Comsat Corp. [CQ] has filed a $5 million breach of contract lawsuit against IDB Mobile Communications Inc. of Canada. In papers filed in U.S. District Court for Maryland, Comsat said […]

Weeks after receiving the FCC's go-ahead to construct low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite telephone systems, Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. (MCHI) and Constellation Communications Inc. are being challenged by a trio of satellite […]

The long-running antitrust lawsuit between Greenwich, Conn.-based PanAmSat Corp. [SPOTD] and Washington, D.C.-based Comsat Corp. [CQ] ended May 16 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed […]

Columbia Communications Corp. has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to settle a dispute with certain creditors who had threatened to force the company into bankruptcy, industry sources said. The […]