News Analysis

View video interviews with key executives at the IBC 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands including: Kirill Filippov, CEO-SPB TV; Carmen Gonzalez-Sanfeliu, Regional VP, Latin America-Intelsat;Eyal Copitt, Chief Commercial Officer and Guy Eran, VP-Channel Distribution of DiViNetworks; Andrew Bond, Global Sales Director-ETL Systems and Amir Carmeli, VP, Africa-Amos Spacecom To view the interviews click here.

Stockholm, Sweden, September 10, 2015--Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced its agreement to acquire Envivio (NASDAQ:ENVI), by means of a tender offer for a price of US$ 4.10 per share in cash, or approximately US$ 125 million in the aggregate. The acquisition will strengthen Ericsson as a global innovator in enabling customers to deploy new technologies and agile video processing to innovate new services that engage TV consumers every day.

Hong Kong, September 10, 2015-- 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.

London, UK, September 8, 2015—Highlighting the rise in consumers' appetite for multiplay services, the TV industry has seen several providers merge and others invest heavily in broadcast rights. Multiplay services have made huge advances across Europe, with the US to follow, says global analyst firm CCS Insight. However, ahead of this year's IBC event in Amsterdam, the company warns that the TV industry will continue to face major disruption as Web brands and traditional TV providers fight to be the first to launch live TV programming in 4K.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 7, 2015--Arabsat and Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) have announced their joint venture to launch TRIO, the first real triple play service over satellite in the world.

The September 2015  issue of  the  Satellite Executive Briefing magazine  sponsored by Gazprom Space Systems is now available.  Featuring:

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, September 1, 2015–Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L), has confirmed the successful launch of its third satellite in the transformational Global Xpress (GX) constellation. Inmarsat-5 F3 (I-5 F3), which was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12.44pm (BST), entered orbit on August 29 at 04.15 am (BST) following a 15 hour and 31 minute mission. 

Hong Kong, August 27, 2015--Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (‘AsiaSat’ – SEHK: 1135), today announced its 2015 interim results for the six months ending June 30, 2015. 1st Half 2015 turnover was HK$ 641 million, down 8% compared to same period last year primarily due to lower short-term revenue generated in the current period. 

Sydney, Australia, August 26, 2015  Satellite communications service provider SpeedCast today announced strong half year 2015 results for the period of January through June 2015, demonstrating double digit year-on-year growth across all major P&L metrics.