Globalstar has installed hardware needed to offer data services, it said. It recently received IP addresses from an ISP in Nicaragua, it said. All Globalstar ground stations can provide packet data satellite services, it said. Globalstar customers now can roam and use the Internet anywhere Globalstar offers service, except China, it said.
Exports to China
A couple who solicited investments in a telecom hardware leasing firm faces federal charges in connection with an $18 million investment scheme, said the U.S. Attorney for the Northern Dist. of Cal. A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned fraud indictments against Rebecca and Terry Solomon of Tiburon, Cal., saying they misused money they raised for various investments, including in telecom leases in China.
Consumers in the Asia-Pacific region increasingly will choose sophisticated set-top boxes with HD capability and PVR functions, ABI Research said Mon. China will lead the drive to adopt high-end products due to sheer number of potential subscribers, it said. Subscription growth in China will run on growing affluence and increased consumer spending on DTV and video services, the report said. Chinese viewers will buy advanced set-tops to see digital broadcasts on legacy analog TVs. “The Asia-Pacific pay-TV industry still has considerable room for growth, especially in countries like China and India, where the base of potential customers is huge but there is still relatively low pay-TV and digital penetration,” ABI analyst Serene Fong said: “For instance, in the digital cable TV and telco TV arenas, we expect China to take the lead in terms of actual shipment counts, with approximately 75 million and 9 million box shipments, respectively, by 2012.” ABI studied 5 big markets -- Australia, China, Japan, S. Korea and India -- at different levels of development in the pay-TV and digital penetration arena. The study covers market conditions and set-top box equipment deployment for cable TV, direct broadcast, digital terrestrial TV and IPTV.
GENEVA -- The Doha round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks and bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are key tools for improving market access in telecom and information technology, but snags face Doha services negotiators trying to achieve market access, officials here said. President Bush’s 2007 Trade Policy and Annual Report details progress on multilateral negotiations in the WTO and bilateral efforts for telecom market opening and liberalization.
EchoStar appears to be laying the groundwork to enter the mobile satellite services business through international alliances and a bid for FCC licenses in the 1.4 GHz band, SEC filings show.
China’s Jan. 11 destruction of a defunct weather satellite is “not consistent” with China’s stated goal to become a peaceful global power, Vice President Cheney said. China, which said it was only testing technology when it destroyed the satellite with a missile, has drawn global criticism.
China Satellite Mobile Broadcast (CSM) chose EchoStar’s Hong Kong affiliate as its main provider of S-band satellite capacity. China plans to launch a mobile video solution before the Beijing 2008 Olympics, said CSM Chmn. Li Zhi.
GENEVA -- Advanced wireless technologies and improvements to the international spectrum regulatory framework are among a range of issues in play at a 2-week meeting of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM) that started here Mon.
GENEVA -- Concern about China’s Jan. 11 antisatellite test was voiced Tues. by countries at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. They worried about its effect on other nations’ space assets, documents said. China again said it didn’t aim the test at or threaten a particular country, documents said. China also said the U.S. created 41.6% of the more than 10,000 pieces of debris in space.
Chinese manufacturer Huawei completed the VoIP network migration in Shannxi Province for China Mobile, the companies said Mon. The new IP-based network will improve the carrier’s network performance in the competitive Chinese mobile market, it said.