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Harbinger Capital unveiled its plans for a wholesale 4G wireless provider which will be called LightSquared. The new wireless service provider intends to build a nationwide 4G wireless network, utilizing both terrestrial and satellite assets, and offer wholesale wireless capacity ...

Satellite operators could have greater flexibility to offer terrestrial broadband services as a result of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued this week from the Federal Communications Commission. The NPRM, which focuses on 90 MHz of spectrum in three different satellite bands, aims to make it ...

BroadWorks VoIP Application Platform Routes Industry's First Satellite Call Ever Made Between Two Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Smartphones GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of VoIP applications, today announced its involvement in the industry's first smartphone to smartphone VoIP call by mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR). On ...

Wal-Mart will soon begin marketing broadband service, through a reseller arrangement with Hughes Network Systems. The broadband product will be HughesNet, which offers packages of satellite delivered broadband at download bandwidth speeds of 700kbps to 1.5mbps (not guaranteed). BusinessWeek is ...