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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SatCom Marketing, LLC, a Teleservices company located in Minneapolis, MN received the Time Warner Cable Quality Vendor of The Quarter Award for the third quarter of 2012. This is the sixth time in the last seven quarters that SatCom Marketing has won the award that Time Warner Cable bestows on one of its Teleservices vendors in recognition of call quality, sales performance and compliance to national telemarketing standards of conduct....

Flooding in the UK. Forest fires in Spain. Headlines bombard us every day. As fast as we can pick up our smartphones or log on to our computers, we want the news and we want it now. And its delivery just got easier. News broadcasters need to trust their connections with satellites more than ever to deliver up-to-the-second news, complete with video, quotes from witnesses and interviews with victims. Back in the early days of news gathering, reporters stampeded to telephones to phone in...

GERMANTOWN, Md., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, and a leading provider of managed network and application services, today announced that it has been awarded a Custom Satellite Communications Solutions (CS2) contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide commercial satellite end-to-end communications to government customers. (Logo:...

GERMANTOWN, Md., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, and a leading provider of managed network and application services, today announced that Col. Charles (Chuck) Cynamon (Ret.), senior director for the Defense and Intelligence Systems Division (DISD), will participate in a panel discussion at the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) 2012 Army Commercial SATCOM Users Workshop. Taking...

EL SEGUNDO, CA, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), today announced that it has been awarded a contract by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to supply equipment for use in the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) program.  The contract is valued at approximately US$5 million, and covers the tenth flight set for WGS, a U.S. military communications satellite program.  COM DEV USA will be providing switches, filters,...

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Commonwealth of Australia Department of Defence (ADF) has selected ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT) to supply the UHF Satellite Communication (Satcom) Mission System for its recently-launched UHF capacity on Intelsat IS-22. The system is designed to provide voice and data military satcom covering a region from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of Australia. The value of the award to ViaSat is approximately $35 million. (Logo:...

NEWTOWN, Pa., July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The VINASAT-2 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) of Vietnam, is now ready for service following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems. "VINASAT-2 will join VINASAT-1 to form a satellite network, helping to improve the business capabilities, safety and reliability of the Vietnam telecommunications network as...

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CPI International Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary CPI International, Inc. (CPI) have successfully completed their acquisition of the Codan Satcom business from Codan Limited (ASX: CDA) for a payment of $9 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. Codan Satcom designs and manufactures solid-state radio frequency subsystems for satellite communications services to commercial and government customers. (Logo:...

NEWTOWN, Pa., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellite fleet has achieved a significant milestone by accumulating 1,000 years of in-orbit operations. JCSAT-13, built for SKY Perfect JSAT, and VINASAT-2, manufactured for Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group, were successfully launched May 15 and are the 100th and 101st satellites in the Lockheed Martin fleet. "Our focus on providing customers with...

AMHERST, N.H., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AeroSat Avionics, a leader in aviation communications solutions, announced today that Gogo will use the AeroSat HR6400 satellite communication system to extend its in-flight connectivity coverage map beyond the United States to include the most popular international routes and destinations. The initial service expansion will rely upon existing satellites currently in service. AeroSat has been designing and manufacturing satellite...