Ten months into service, Iridium has few customers for its global satellite network and expensive phones.
Customers include cable and satellite network operators, telecommunication companies, broadcasters and Internet companies that provide video services.
Al-Arabiya, a Dubai-based Arab satellite network, said its Tehran bureau was ordered closed.
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In 1994 he and his pal Bill Gates unveiled plans for a satellite network, later named Teledesic, but it was far off.
Rupert Murdoch's satellite network had been asked to beam Mandarin-only shows, giving Wharf Cable an edge in Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong.
He plans to preview the system to his investors in September, staging lots of telephone calls via Globalstar's 48-satellite network.
Earlier in the day, Marieme had watched news from ABC, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC and a Senegalese satellite network.
SoftBank Mobile has applied and successfully received approval from the Japanese regulator to provide Thuraya's satellite network services in Japan.
ENGADGET: Softbank will offer satellite phones for use during natural disasters
However, reporters stationed in Basra -- from Abu Dhabi television and Al-Jazeera satellite network -- said they saw no signs of civilian unrest.
This groundbreaking alliance between our companies represents an exciting milestone for SoftBank's subscribers who can now benefit from comprehensive coverage of our satellite network.
ENGADGET: Softbank will offer satellite phones for use during natural disasters
Then, it would pump out the water, float back to the top and relay its data back to the scientists via a satellite network.
Sunday's order from the Communications and Media Commission includes the Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera and eight outlets aimed at the country's Sunni Arab minority.
When the satellite network is completed in 2003, an ISP in, say, Medicine Hat, Wyoming, that contracts with Teledesic could connect a small, externally mounted antenna to its servers.
The massive explosion of online video has paved a new path for content creators like myself who now have an audience potential that is bigger than any cable or satellite network.
And by using the global positioning satellite network, vessels' positions can be monitored automatically, as is already the case around the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Georges Bank off the coast of Maine.
The five POWs -- members of the 507th Maintenance Company, based at Fort Bliss, Texas -- were interviewed in a video from Iraqi state-run television broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network based in Qatar.
DUBAI, UAE, December 17, 2012 - Thuraya Telecommunications, a leading Mobile Satellite Services operator and Softbank Mobile, a telecommunications leader in Japan today announced they have signed an agreement with the goal of bringing mobile satellite communication services for Japanese business, enterprise, and consumer subscribers across Thuraya's satellite network.
ENGADGET: Softbank will offer satellite phones for use during natural disasters
It certainly isn't inconceivable that Apple will start selling high-def video through some sort of iTunes-like online store ( Steve Jobs talked a lot about HD during his Macworld keynote this past January), but an Apple satellite network (at least as described) just sounds like some Apple fanboy's wet dream.
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Our investment in space exploration helped to create our satellite telecommunications network and the Global Positioning System.
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Last week, US intelligence experts said technical analysis of another audio tape aired on the al-Jazeera satellite TV network showed "almost certainly" that it came from Bin Laden.
Just ask Motorola, whose Iridium satellite phone network is in bankruptcy.
In his defense, Ergen will argue his satellite TV network will generate competition against cable companies, nearly all of which are local monopolies in their own right.
The Qatari government set up the Doha Centre for Media Freedom in 2008 to promote press freedom and quality journalism, and is home to the pan-Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera.
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We definitely cannot attest to the reliability of Mac OS Rumors as a, um, rumor site, but they're reporting that Apple is working on some sort of high-definition satellite TV network.
ENGADGET: Apple's working on a high-definition video network?
Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China including: training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools.
We doubt we'll see any reduction in ticket prices, but the process of bringing new movies to theaters could get easier very soon as five major studios have signed on with the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) to use its satellite distribution network.
The satellite-linked network will show news, previews of ABC shows and Disney movies, and, of course, advertising.
Gottsch lowered his sights, cutting production costs by working with independent producers and pitching the network to satellite channels instead.
That number includes the amount of homes Google would reach in combination with its two biggest TV Ads partners to date: satellite service providers Dish Network and DirecTV.
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In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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