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Telesat expressed support for the Canadian government’s Throne Speech and Budget commitment to remove foreign ownership restrictions on Canadian satellite operators.

The United Arab Emirates’ Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has awarded Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) a 10-year satellite services licence.
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Motorola, Inc. filed a complaint against two wholly owned subsidiaries of Iridium Communications Inc. (Iridium Satellite LLC and Iridium Holdings LLC).
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exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. , announced that it has signed a C$1.4 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data.
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Once more, Eutelsat finds itself at the centre of a controversy in which a broadcaster accuses the satellite operator of censorship. In this case, state-funded Georgian Public Broadcaster GPB claims Eutelsat succumbed to Russian pressure by taking GPB’s Russian-language channel off the W7 satellite. Eutelsat firmly denied all allegations.
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