Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems     by Manlio Allegra       Home         Topics: Main | 2004 | 2003 |2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997     DISH Network Launches Online Video Portal with Live TV DISH Network introduced online video portal for its satellite TV customers that integrates live and recorded TV with more than 150,000 popular movies, TV shows, clips and trailers into one easy-to-use interface. DISHOnline.com enables customers to watch their live TV, all of their DVR recordings, and instantly view thousands of movies, TV shows, clips and more from programmers such as Food Network, Discovery Channel, MTV, EPIX, Starz and Encore. There is no additional cost above Dish's normal, monthly paid-subscription fee. DISHOnline.com is also open to non-DISH Network customers, who have access to thousands of free video selections available for instant streaming. Those with a DISH Network subscription can enjoy the enhanced features of DISHOnline.com by logging in with their existing DISH Network online account information. Live and recorded TV viewing is enabled for customers with a ViP 922 SlingLoaded DVR or the upcoming Sling Adapter. ...  > More   Spacenet Awarded $7.5M for Broadband in Alaska & Hawaii Spacenet has been awarded $7.5 million in federal grant funding from the Rural Utility Service (RUS) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide broadband service to rural unserved markets in Alaska and Hawaii through its "StarBand Open Skies" initiative. Spacenet will offer its StarBand broadband-over-satellite service to these regions for $0 down, including equipment and standard installation, and an entry-level monthly service fee of $50. The Nova 1000 service provides download speeds of up to 1 Mbps and upload speeds of 200 Kbps, and the Nova 1500 service provides download speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps and upload speeds of 256 Kbps....  > More   WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband WildBlue Communications, a subsidiary of ViaSat, won a grant valued at $19.5 million to connect unserved residents to affordable broadband services. The funding comes from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA). Subscribers covered by the grant would receive service from one of WildBlue's three current satellites - Anik-F2, WildBlue-1, and AMC-15 - and starting in mid 2011, from the new high-capacity ViaSat-1 satellite....  > More   First Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite Launched Successfully The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V rocket provided by the United Launch Alliance. The AEHF will deliver survivable, protected, secure links to U.S. national leaders, air, land and sea forces, providing rapid, global coverage for the nation's strategic forces, the Air Force's space warning assets and operationally deployed military forces. The AEHF constellation will also serve international partners including Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Lockheed Martin said one AEHF satellite will provide greater total capacity than the entire Milstar constellation. Individual user data rates will be five times improved....  > More   Google Inks Ad Sales Deal with DIRECTV Google will become the sales representative for a broad selection of advertising inventory on several cable networks carried on DIRECTV. Under the deal, national satellite advertising inventory on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4, Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth, Chiller and TV Guide will be available through the Google TV Ads system. DIRECTV currently has 18.7 million satellite TV subscribers....  > More DISH Network Launches Online Video Portal with Live TV 8/24/2010 Spacenet Awarded $7.5M for Broadband in Alaska & Hawaii 8/23/2010 WildBlue Wins $19M Grant for Rural Satellite Broadband 8/19/2010 First Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite Launched Successfully 8/15/2010 Google Inks Ad Sales Deal with DIRECTV 8/11/2010 EchoStar Selects Widevine for Digital Rights Management 8/10/2010 Lockheed Martin Readies First Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite 8/10/2010 Valero Selects Spacenet for Broadband Managed Services Nationwide 8/10/2010 Inmarsat Plans Ka-band Global Mobile Broadband Service 8/6/2010 Hughes and China UnifiedNet Form Joint Venture 8/3/2010 EchoStar Plans New Data Center in Wyoming 8/3/2010 Sky Deutschland Selects Broadcom's STB Chipset 8/2/2010 Harris Acquires CapRock for $525 Million 7/30/2010 Cable&Wireless Worldwide Closes London Centre 7/30/2010 FCC Explores Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) Spectrum 7/15/2010 EchoStar XV Satellite Successfully Launched 7/10/2010 TerreStar Updates Roll Out Schedule 7/2/2010 Polaris Wireless and Globecomm Partner on Managed E911 Phase II Services 6/21/2010 FCC Task Force Looks at Satellite Spectrum for Mobile Broadband 6/18/2010 Eutelsat Focuses Four Satellites on 2010 FIFA World Cup 5/27/2010 > More news No records returned.   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton   E-mail Newsletter Subscribe Now