ITC Global, a leading provider of satellite communications to remote and harsh environments, announced today that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Copenhagen, Denmark-based Maersk Drilling, which is part of Danish shipping and energy company, Maersk Group.

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI), a leading global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, has announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (CCT).

HISPASAT Group signed a contract with Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) through their Brazilian subsidiary Hispamar Satélites to supply them with C-band capacity, which will be used for contribution services for the events and news broadcasting of TV Brasil and NBR, networks operated by the Brazilian firm.

Hispamar, whose control center is located in Brazil and which has sufficient technical team to serve its clients 24 hours a day – one of the requirements established in the criteria of EBC’s call for bids – was awarded the contract by the government-owned corporation.  

Hellas Sat, a subsidiary of Arabsat today signed a contract today with Newtec to power a new multimillion Euro Direct-to-Home (DTH) earth station.

ND SatCom announced the official launch of its Partner Program for integrating its new SKYWAN 5G product as key element in VSAT terminal solutions by selected partners.

Introduced in June this year, the highly anticipated SKYWAN 5G VSAT modem is now available with full capabilities for integration in all types of partner solutions.

Onlime does not rest on its laurels winning the Independent Teleport of the Year Award but continues to invest into network facility and company infrastructure. The newly installed state-of-the-art, high power C-band modular HPA from General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies is now providing substantial uplink capacity on AFRICASAT-1a with high reliability and switchless redundancy - DVB-S2X READY.

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI), a leading global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, will be displaying its new cost-effective Ka-band Comm-on-the-Move (COTM) product today at the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam (booth number 4.C53).

Quantis, an operator and provider of telecommunications services, Internet, voice, data and satellite TV, has ordered a Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform to complement its existing satellite infrastructure and enable more advanced, customized services for its customers.

Quantis is a longstanding Newtec broadband solutions customer, with coverage over Africa, Europe and the Middle East, including a broadband hub (Sat3Play®) installed in Arganda, Madrid.

AvL Technologies announced that  five new Premium Ka-band Mobile VSAT antenna models have received terminal type approval certification from ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) for use on the ViaSat Ka-band enterprise service network. The antennas include an 85cm FlyAway, 85cm Vehicle-Mount, 1.2m FlyAway, 1.2m Vehicle-Mount, and specialized dual-band 1.2m Vehicle-Mount antenna. These new AvL antennas are approved for use on the ViaSat network with AvL’s AAQ auto-acquire embedded antenna control system. 

The world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite, ABS-3A satellite is now in full commercial use. The satellite started service on  August 31, 2015 to serve the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Middle East regions.  Launched on March 1, 2015, the ABS-3A satellite built by Boeing has performed even better than expected having arrived ahead of schedule. In-Orbit tests have been successfully completed and the satellite became fully operational on August 31, 2015.