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Dish Network sues ESPN over carriage dispute

Relevance Score: 5.134    2009-08-10 23:05:00

Dish Network has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit accusing ESPN of offering better terms to the satellite TV provider's competitors than to Dish.   The lawsuit filed this week in federal court in New York accuses ESPN of breaking a 2005 agreement with Dish by offering Comcast Corp. and DirecTV Inc. better provisions ...

DISH Network Resolves Dispute Over Unfair Practices

Relevance Score: 4.071    2009-07-16 23:20:54

Dish Network Corp. (DISH) reached an agreement with 46 state attorneys general to resolve claims of unfair and deceptive marketing, sales and service practices.   The Englewood, Colo., satellite-television provider, without admitting guilt, agreed to a settlement and will make a financial restitution to customers. A company spokesman wasn't available to provide ...

DISH Network (DISH) & EchoStar (SATS) Issue Statement Regarding TiVo Patent Ruling

Relevance Score: 3.914    2009-08-14 02:51:46

DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) and EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) issued the following statement focusing on recent developments in EchoStar Communications Corporation vs. Tivo (Nasdaq: TIVO):   "We are pleased that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued an initial office action rejecting Tivo's software claims as invalid in light ...

EchoStar losts $645,000 in the first quarter, Dish Network profit up 21% in first quarter 2009 despite subscriber decline.

Relevance Score: 3.867    2009-05-12 16:43:04

Dish Network Corp. said Monday earned 21 percent more in the first quarter from the same period a year earlier, despite a continuing decline in subscribers. The Douglas County, Colo.-based satellite-television provider (NASDAQ: DISH) informed that the company earned $312.7 million, or 70 cents a share, on the quarter, up ...

UPDATE 1-Echostar names Dugan as CEO, Ergen remains chairman.

Relevance Score: 3.765    2009-11-24 23:11:27

Media mogul Charlie Ergen relinquished his role as chief executive of EchoStar Corp (SATS.O), and named Michael Dugan to run the maker of television set-top boxes.   Dugan, 60, a senior advisor and member of the company's board of directors and, will serve as president and CEO.   Ergen will stay on ...

Dish Shares Advance After Credit Suisse Upgrade >DISH

Relevance Score: 3.743    2009-08-05 12:00:02

Shares of satellite provider Dish Network Corp. (DISH) were up Tuesday after Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang raised his rating to outperform from neutral.    The stock recently rose 79 cents, or 4.5%, to $18.24.    Wang said that gross subscriber additions should begin to "stabilize" after sluggish growth in recent quarters, and may ...

SWE-DISH Terminal Awarded FCC Licenses

Relevance Score: 3.542    2009-04-09 09:25:36

SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath® company specialising in compact, quick-to-air and easy-to-use mobile satellite communications (SATCOM) equipment, has been granted US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licences for the SWE-DISH Drive-Away CCT120 and Suitcase® CCT120 SATCOM terminals. The licences are for all authorised US-licensed satellites (ALSAT) listed on the FCC’s ...

SWE-DISH SATCOM Delivery To Dutch By Rockwell Collins.

Relevance Score: 3.502    2009-10-19 14:39:04

Rockwell Collins will be providing 23 SWE-DISH CCT120 Suitcase SATCOM terminals to the Dutch Ministry of Defence as part of a contract awarded to 2connect-IT, a Netherland-based distributor for SWE-DISH terminals.   The terminals will be delivered through Rockwell Collins' Swedish subsidiary (formerly SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB*).   The Suitcase CCT120 solution ...

EchoStar And Dish To Pay TiVo $200m Damages.

Relevance Score: 3.451    2009-09-11 10:55:08

The US District Court for Eastern Texas has ordered EchoStar Communications and Dish Network to pay digital video recording service provider TiVo approximately $200m for violating a court-ordered permanent injunction from April 2008 through July 2009.   The court said contempt sanctions equal to a rate of $2.25 per DVR subscriber ...

atrexx Maintains Vital Communications Links For Iraq

Relevance Score: 3.211    2009-12-08 21:08:20

atrexx has confirmed that it will be offering satellite-based communications services, via the Eutelsat EUROBIRD 4A satellite, to the Iraq region. The company is responding to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, which has led to the delay of the withdrawal of U.S. troops and thus to continued strong demand for ...

Military Drones Easy Hacked.

Relevance Score: 3.189    2009-12-18 01:48:57

SkyGrabber and similar software has been used to capture military feeds from Predator UAV, such as this one in Ali Base, Iraq.   Hollywood makes it look as if terrorists need complicated equipment and a criminal super-genius to tap into US military drones. In fact, a $26 computer program would ...

DISH Network And EchoStar Issue Statement Regarding Tivo And USPTO Action.

Relevance Score: 3.176    2009-09-02 20:25:13

DISH Network L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation, and EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, issued the following statement regarding recent developments in EchoStar Communications Corporation vs. Tivo:   "We are pleased the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) dismissed Tivo's petition to vacate EchoStar's re-examination of Tivo's patent. ...

TiVo Versus EchoStar.

Relevance Score: 3.123    2009-09-14 17:36:23

Damage and contempt sanctions ordered by a Texas federal judge, in favor of TiVo versus EchoStar Technologies, comes in to the tune of $200 million. According to the judge, this is the amount for the harm caused by the satellite operator's infringement of a crucial DVR patent. The total now ...

TiVo Seeking Almost $1 Billion in Sanctions From Dish Network Corp.

Relevance Score: 3.052    2009-07-20 00:55:19

TiVo Inc., the pioneer in digital- video recording services, is seeking almost $1 billion from legal opponent Dish Network Corp. for contempt in their 5 1/2- year patent battle, according to a court filing.   Dish, the second-biggest U.S. satellite-television broadcaster, and EchoStar Corp. face contempt sanctions for continuing to infringe ...

Satellite iDirect in Iraq

Relevance Score: 3.021    2009-12-08 15:38:24

iDirect has supplied over $8 million of equipment to fifteen satellite commercial service providers in Iraq using it’s hub technology and offering broadband IP services. Together these providers run around 1,000 iDirect remote-site VSAT routers in Iraq. While many of these providers began serving the Department of Defense or reconstruction ...

EchoStar Charged To Pay TiVo Additional $103 Million.

Relevance Score: 2.987    2009-06-09 01:19:17

A federal court ordered EchoStar Communications -- now part of Dish Network -- to pay TiVo an additional $103 million after recognizing the satellite operator in contempt of an order that it stop using a key TiVo DVR patent.  The U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decision found ...

New Satellite Services for US Military in Afghanistan and Iraq

Relevance Score: 2.850    2010-01-12 00:21:11

TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites to the MENA Region. These types of telecommunication products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in the Near East and Asia, as well as by the soldiers that are stationed in Iraq ...

TiVo Inc. (TIVO) Comments on Court Decision Concerning EchoStar Communications (DISH).

Relevance Score: 2.781    2009-06-03 13:35:56

TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO) published the following information today regarding the decision by the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in the lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq : DISH):  "We are extremely gratified by the Court's well reasoned and thorough decision, in which it rejected EchoStar's attempted workaround ...

Hughes Satellite Services in Afghanistan and Iraq

Relevance Score: 2.763    2010-02-09 12:23:47

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has expanded provision of high-speed satellite Internet access for U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Available at U.S. military bases, the broadband Internet service is being delivered via the company’s new operations hub in Dubai, ...

Dish violating Do Not Call Rule?

Relevance Score: 2.725    2009-03-26 14:55:22

Dish Network, US second biggest satellite company Has Just been accused of violating Do Not Call Rule, thus harassing millions of US citizens that do not want receive phone advertisemensts. Their phone numbers has been put into special database –government led Do Not Call Registry, which contains over 160 millions ...

Ericsson inaugurates new office in Erbil

Relevance Score: 2.721    2009-03-18 19:19:43

Ericsson, the world's leading provider of telecommunications equipments and related services to mobile and fixed networks, has announced the inauguration of its new Branch offices in Erbil, Iraq. This latest addition will enhance the company's presence in the Middle East region by providing a facility for local presence that caters to ...

Satellite Broadband Internet for US Troops

Relevance Score: 2.713    2009-11-27 13:52:11

TS2 Satellite Technologies' network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15 thousand military users of local broadband satellite connections. "We were among the first telecommunications operators in the satellite technology in the territory of Iraq and Afghanistan and as such we have enjoyed a successful cooperation with the US Army ...

ILS and SES Announce the Launch of QuetzSat-1 Satellite in 2011

Relevance Score: 2.708    2009-07-15 01:14:27

ILS International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced the execution of an agreement for the launch of QuetzSat-1 on an ILS Proton in 2011. QuetzSat-1 is under construction by Space Systems/Loral on behalf of SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of ...

Dish Satellite Settlement

Relevance Score: 2.697    2009-07-17 17:00:39

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger today announced a multi-state settlement with the DISH Network, L.L.C., a satellite TV provider that is the subject of hundreds of complaints by Oregon consumers in the past few years.   "Telecommunications companies ranked No. 1 on the Department of Justice's Top 10 Consumer Complaints 2008," said ...

283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops and an Army of Military Contractors

Relevance Score: 2.671    2009-03-31 11:41:15

With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including an Iraq-like "surge" replete with 4,000 more U.S. troops and a sizable increase in private contractors, President Barack Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he somehow represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts ...

Satellite Internet Access for U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

Relevance Score: 2.661    2009-12-07 17:15:13

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) announced that it has expanded provision of high-speed satellite Internet access for U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Available at U.S. military bases, the broadband Internet service is being delivered via the company's new operations hub in Dubai, enabling troops to stay in touch ...

$5.8M to Improve FOB Speicher, Iraq

Relevance Score: 2.635    2008-06-03 23:41:16

Wintara, Inc. in Fort Washington, MD received a $5.8 million firm-fixed price contract for replacement facilities for Forward Operating Base, Speicher near Tikrit, Iraq. Work is expected to be complete by Jan 31/09. 98 bids were solicited on Feb 4/08, and 12 bids were received by the U.S. Army Corps ...

Iraq's hot, but a tourist hotspot?

Relevance Score: 2.574    2009-06-10 11:37:14

Iraq's first notable tourist, Jonah, hated it. Belched out of a whale and stuck under Ninevah's parching, sweltering sun, the Bible says he cared more for the plant that shaded him than for the city he was sent to save.   Thousands of years later, it's cliché to say Iraq is not ...

U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq

Relevance Score: 2.568    2009-03-19 02:32:25

The decision not to renew Blackwater Worldwide's security contract in Iraq when it expires in early May has left the State Department scrambling to fill a protection gap for U.S. diplomats and civilian officials there.   Two other U.S. security contractors with a far smaller presence in Iraq -- DynCorp International and ...

Capacity Contracts For Telesat.

Relevance Score: 2.560    2009-10-05 13:11:08

Telesat has completed agreements for new satellite capacity with two of its key clients, Bell TV and EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS).   Bell TV, a provider of DTH services in Canada, has agreed to use a new Telesat direct broadcast satellite, which is scheduled for construction starting in the first ...

 

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  • John: I need to be able to support 15 users.
  • Erika: We are looking to wire a FOB with commercial Internet for approximately 900 people. During high times, we would probably have 350-400 people online at once. Users want to be able to do VoIP, webcam, streaming media at a speed comparable to that in the US. There is also the potential to do the same thing at five other FOBs that are about half the size of the main one that we want to provide Internet to, so there would be 175-200 on at once during a high period of use.