Satellite operator Telesat today announced the appointment of Glenn Katz as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). In addition, Tom Eaton, previously Telesat’s Vice President of International Sales, is moving to the role of President of Telesat Government Solutions – a US-incorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary of Telesat.

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) finds that 71% of TV households nationwide have some form of pay-TV service. The percentage of TV households that have a live pay-TV service (via cable, satellite, Telco, or Internet-delivered vMVPD) is down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in 2006.

Reflecting this decline, in TV households 64% of adults ages 18-44 and 77% of ages 45+ have a pay-TV service.  Comparatively, in 2016, 77% of adults ages 18-44 and 86% of ages 45+ had a pay-TV service.

ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has collaborated with technology provider XipLink to implement a security feature required for 4G backhaul services. The feature will support IP security (IPsec) encryption with CMPv2 digital certificate management, building upon the existing high levels of security already offered by ST Engineering iDirect whilst maintaining satellite traffic optimization and acceleration. The new functionality has been tested and certified by satellite operator Turksat.

Integrays and Capanet Communications sign a distribution agreement for enabling their customers to have a complete suite of SaaS technologies. The partnership’s primary goal is to offer the customer suitable technologies to enable complete network automation, from the design through BeamBudget, Orchestration by the Capanet Ops Suite (powered by G&S SatCom), deployment with Satmotion, maintenance with Alusat, monitoring with Controlsat, and interference mitigation with Vectorsat.

SpaceBridge Inc., a manufacturer of High Throughput Satellite (HTS)/VHTS Broadband VSAT Satellite Network Platforms, and Xiplink, the leading provider of Radio Access Network (RAN) Optimization and Acceleration today jointly announced a technology partnership.

​The next World Radiocommunication Conference, WRC-23, will take place between 20 November and 15 December 2023, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) confirmed today following a consultation with the ITU Member States around the world.

The conference, where governments, regulators and industry gather to update the ITU Radio Regulations, will take place in one of the main cities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), either Abu Dhabi or Dubai.

NSR’s new report Software-Defined Satellites (SDS) sees growing satellite flexibility requirements trigger an $86.9 Billion cumulative revenue opportunity by decade’s end. Non-GEO- HTS constellation satellites will lead uptake with 95% demonstrating full or partial flexibility as software-defined platforms by 2030. However, operator hesitancy s

Satellite operator Intelsat S.A. (OTC: INTEQ) announced today that Chief Executive Officer Stephen Spengler has decided to retire as CEO upon the company’s emergence from its financial restructuring process and the naming of a successor. Until that time, Spengler will continue as CEO and lead Intelsat through the final stages of this process, ensuring a smooth transition.