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...Earlier this year, it purchased Viasat’s tactical data links unit, which provides data and voice communications systems for military vehicles, aeroplanes and ships, for $1.96bn....
...Through its Viasat pay-TV business, Nent also had a pan-regional footprint and a reason to invest in a streaming platform that could easily stretch into new markets and languages....
...Rival satellite companies including Viasat and Inmarsat compete for contracts with airlines to create bespoke in-cabin broadband services that are sold at a premium to customers....
...Viasat, a satellite company that already provides WiFi services for United Airlines and American Airlines, has threatened legal action against some European regulators for allowing Inmarsat to launch the...
...It is facing increased competition from companies including California-based ViaSat, which this year inked contracts to provide satellite-powered internet connectivity on 600 new American Airlines planes...
...In more humdrum space news, the European Space Agency has struck up an agreement to work with ViaSat, the US technology company, to accelerate the development of broadband services in the European satellite...
...Pursuing the rule change could take five years as other interested parties came out of the woodwork to complicate the process, according to Latham & Watkins, which advised ViaSat....
...ViaSat, in October successfully launched its new ViaSat-1, one of the highest capacity data satellites in the world....
...One potential challenge to Aircell could come from ViaSat....
...CanalPlus in France and Swedish-owned Viasat have already introduced these....
...Its US partner, ViaSat, hitherto an equipment company, is launching a 100gbps satellite later the same year....
...The company, which also counts Europe's largest digital pay-television group British Sky Broadcasting as a customer, said it had signed new contracts with Viasat of Sweden, SuperSun in Hong Kong and Auna...
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