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Report Card Shows Improvements In Afghan Training.

Relevance Score: 4.205    2009-07-15 02:29:14

Lt Col Gabriel informed the Afghan forces' development won't happen overnight. (Defence Force: Corporal Hamish Paterson )  The first Australian training team to be sent to Afghanistan has wrapped up its mission there and AM has been given the first progress report on the readiness of the Afghan troops.  They are still ...

Sri Lanka to establish a space agency

Relevance Score: 3.885    2009-12-17 12:13:09

Sri Lankan government has taken measures to establish a space agency in Sri Lanka to improve the telecommunication technology in the country.   Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Priyantha Kariyapperuma said that the preliminary assessments have already been made to explore the feasibility, state-owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation said.   The new ...

Afghan Telecom and Roshan Informed About The Signing Of The Agreement To Utilize National Optical Fiber Backbone Ring Network In Afghanistan.

Relevance Score: 3.634    2009-07-07 00:43:51

Afghan Telecom and Roshan Informed About The Signing Of The Agreement To Utilize National Optical Fiber Backbone Ring Network In Afghanistan.  Afghan Telecom (AT) Afghanistan's first long distance domestic private leased circuit (DPLC) and international private leased circuit (IPLC) provider through Optical Fiber Cable (OFC), informed about a contract with Roshan ...

Critical Failures In Planning, Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars

Relevance Score: 3.586    2009-08-13 09:34:52

The United States is now losing the war in Afghanistan, and is failing to consolidate its victory in Iraq. Reversing this situation requires changes in strategy, but it also requires significant additional resources. It may be tempting for the Obama Administration and the Congress to deny this reality, but any ...

Sri Lanka Broadcasting antennas on one roof

Relevance Score: 3.534    2010-01-01 20:30:32

The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) will set up a common station to house broadcasting antennas at Paliyagoda to facilitate an efficient service for the telecommunication industry in the country.   The TRCSL will commence work on this project early next year at a cost of around US$ 100 million.    Satellite ...

TeleCommunication Systems Raises $60M to Help Buy Networks in Motion - CBL

Relevance Score: 3.532    2010-01-03 12:58:44

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: TSYS), a provider of wireless communications, raised $60 million through a sale of debt and equity securities, according to a Reg D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.   The purchase of Networks in Motion continues TeleCommunication Systems' acquisition mode. Just last month, as reported by ...

Azerbaijan to launch two telecommunication satellites in 2011-2012

Relevance Score: 3.290    2009-12-16 16:42:28

Two Azerbaijani telecommunication satellites to cover Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries are to be launched in 2011-2012.   According to the news service for the communication ministry, launching the satellite will ensure country's access to the international satellite market and provide such services as satellite television and radio, internet, ...

Airpower Report For July 5, 2009.

Relevance Score: 3.238    2009-07-08 01:24:22

Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations July 5, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials.  In Afghanistan, a UK Royal Air Force GR-4 Tornado conducted a strafing run in a wooded location near Gereshk ...

Sirius FM5 delivered to Baikonur.

Relevance Score: 3.178    2009-05-27 14:43:21

Roscosmos informed hat the plane An-124 Ruslan had landed at Yubileyny airport of the Baikonur spacecraft on May, 26th at 10.10 Astana time, which transported the American telecommunication satellite Sirius FM5 to the spacecraft (Radiosat 5, Sirius-Radio FM-5).  According to the press service, after all the customs procedures, the satellite was ...

Lawmakers Consider Anew On Afghan Aid.

Relevance Score: 3.162    2009-07-15 02:38:25

In a World Bank analysis, Singapore ranks as the easiest country to conduct business in, while Afghanistan is number 162   National Security Advisor James L. Jones  "...the Obama administration wants to hold troop levels here flat for now, and focus instead on carrying out the previously approved strategy of increased economic ...

Concentrated UAV Roles In Afghanistan.

Relevance Score: 3.067    2009-08-18 17:39:07

The U.S. military plans to use more drone aircraft to target Taliban militants in Afghanistan while focusing less on hunting down Al-Qaeda figures.   Although defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network remains an overriding goal for Washington, officials now believe the best way to pursue that objective is to ensure stability in ...

In Afghan Desert Marines Confront An Invisible Enemy.

Relevance Score: 3.035    2009-07-08 01:08:12

A scorching desert littered with bombs, little contact, an invisible enemy: the Marines that descended on Taliban bastions in southern Afghanistan will have to confront guerrilla tactics proven against the Soviets, an analyst informed.  "Nawa is quiet, too quiet," commanding officer of the operation, Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, claimed of the ...

Expanding internet connectivity in Afghanistan

Relevance Score: 2.958    2009-03-23 00:07:57

Named after the Great Silk Road trading route linking Asia and Europe, the NATO Virtual Silk Highway (SILK) provides affordable, high-speed Internet access via satellite to the academic communities of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The SILK project is operational at Kabul University, Afghanistan, since 2006, and is now looking ...

TeleCommunication Systems gets $1.2M Army contract

Relevance Score: 2.918    2010-03-01 13:08:49

The wireless and satellite equipment maker TeleCommunication Systems received a $1.2-million, one-year contract to work with the U.S. Army Central Command, the company said Friday.     The Annapolis company said it will provide space segment for Central Command's satellite operations. The contract is from the Defense Information Technology Contracting Office.

Bolivia Expects to Launch Its First Satellite in March

Relevance Score: 2.845    2009-12-29 11:10:32

Bolivia expects to construct and launch Tupac Katari, the country’s first telecommunication satellite and cooperative project with China, within three years, the Bolivian government announced.       Bolivia said that negotiations between the two potential partners, which were being facilitated by Chinese Great Wall Industrial Corp., have been successful and that a ...

A space agency to be established in Sri Lanka.

Relevance Score: 2.796    2009-12-16 16:00:52

Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Priyantha Kariyapperuma states that a space agency to be establish in Sri Lanka. He added that preliminary assessments have already been done in this regard. While participating a media briefing Mr. Kariyapperuma explained that the new agency will help to developments in many ...

BOLIVIA IN ADVANCED TALKS WITH CHINA ON FIRST SATELLITE INTO ORBIT

Relevance Score: 2.738    2009-12-23 13:03:38

The Bolivian Government said talks with China for the construction and placing into orbit of the first telecommunication satellite “Tupac Katari” are in an advance stage and the project is expected to materilise within three years.   The talks were being held with the Chinese Great Wall Industrial Corporation.   According to Deputy Telecommunication ...

TS2 Satellite Technologies — New Services Deployed On Eutelsat Birds

Relevance Score: 2.722    2010-02-09 13:41:09

TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites for the Afghan market. These types of telecommunication products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in Asia, as well as by the soldiers that are stationed in Afghanistan.      Purchased bands gives TS2 unlimited ...

Poland targets UK exercise as preparation for Afghan deployment

Relevance Score: 2.690    2009-05-12 20:14:05

A reinforced Polish mechanised company from the 15th 'Gizycka' Mechanised Brigade of the 16th 'Pomorska' Mechanised Division is to participate in the UK tactical training exercise 'Druids Dance 2009'.   One hundred and thirty Polish troops will remain in the UK for three months, with a follow-on contingent planned to arrive for ...

New Satellite Internet Service Offered to Soldiers in Afghanistan

Relevance Score: 2.668    2010-02-06 13:55:25

TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites to the Afghan market.     These types of telecommunication products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in Asia, as well as by the soldiers that are stationed in Afghanistan. Purchased bands gives TS2 unlimited ...

7 US Troops Dead Throughout Afghanistan

Relevance Score: 2.663    2009-07-09 23:19:27

Bombs and bullets killed seven American soldiers on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year — and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north.   Separately, Taliban militants claimed on a ...

Telecommunications in Afghanistan

Relevance Score: 2.611    2009-03-28 13:46:42

On the surface, Afghanistan's nascent telecommunications sector could be considered a success: Four providers have invested more than US$1 billion in building a mobile phone network in one of the world's poorest countries. It wasn't so long ago that Afghans would have to travel to neighboring Pakistan to make an ...

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. launches next-generation Short Message Service Center for 4G Network

Relevance Score: 2.519    2009-04-03 22:23:00

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) a leading provider of mission-critical wireless communications, today informed that the company's next generation Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is ready to support carriers' upcoming migrations to 4G networks including Long Term Evolution (LTE). As operators roll out 4G access networks, the TCS SMSC will make ...

More Troops required, But Afghans Must Take Fight To The Taliban, Experts Claim.

Relevance Score: 2.482    2009-07-14 00:05:50

Professor Michael Clarke, director of Royal United Services Institute.   The west has lacked a coherent international strategy since 2001 until last year so we have wasted seven years. Before Barack Obama came in there were separate national strategies that didn't meld together; now there is an American-led one taking a ...

Indonesia's largest telecommunication company to develop satellite product

Relevance Score: 2.462    2010-01-22 14:53:40

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, the country's largest telecommunication company, embraced the National Flight and Space Agency to develop satellite products.     The company's President Director Rinaldi Firmansyah said that one of the cooperation is sending seven people to study in the satellite factory Telkom-3 in Russia, including five Telkom's officials and two from ...

Turkey Wants To Launch New Telecommunication Satellite.

Relevance Score: 2.404    2009-07-02 21:52:39

Turkey wants to launch a new telecommunication satellite by the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012, Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim informed.  All unavoidable preparations were made and the new satellite project will be put out to tender in 2009, Yildirim was quoted as saying by the semi-official Anatolia ...

Thales Alenia Space to supply RASCOMSTAR-QAF with a new telecommunication satellite

Relevance Score: 2.384    2008-09-14 01:26:00

RASCOMSTAR-QAF will provide the African continent access to telecommunication and new information and communication technologies.   Cannes, September 9th, 2008 - Thales Alenia Space announced today the signature of a contract with RASCOMSTAR-QAF for the construction of the RASCOM-QAF1R telecommunication satellite.   This new satellite will ensure adequate continuity of service capacity to RASCOMSTAR-QAF ...

Target Of 50 Per Cent Broadband-Usage Achievable - Rais

Relevance Score: 2.322    2009-07-19 13:49:55

The target of 50 per cent home broadband-usage nationwide at the end of next year can be achieved, said Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.   He said the home broadband adoption now stood at 25 per cent compared to 12 per cent in 2007.   "I will see how ...

Chinese Government Merges Major Satellite, Telecom Companies

Relevance Score: 2.284    2009-04-15 15:57:23

On April 10th, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced that it has been merged by the Chinese government with China Satellite Communications Corp. (China Satcom).  At current, China Satcom with total assets worth 6.6 billion yuan ($965 million), will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CASC. CASC claims ...

TeleCommunication Systems Receives Funding from Marine Corps for WPPL Systems

Relevance Score: 2.269    2009-12-29 11:52:49

TeleCommunication Systems, a provider of mission-critical wireless communications, has announced that it has been awarded an additional $8 million in funding from the U.S. Marine Corps for the TCS Wireless Point-to-Point Link systems.   This new contract calls on TCS to provide field support representatives and extended maintenance warranty support. Also, the ...

 

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