Satellite News

Alcatel-Lucent announced that, following the DVB-SH pilot jointly performed by telecommunications operator SFR and Alcatel-Lucent from July to December 2007, both companies validated the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH network co-localised, for its terrestrial part, with an existing commercial 3G+ network.

Iran plans to spend US$250 million on the construction and launch of a satellite, Fars news agency quoted a Majlis (Iranian parliament) member as saying.

South Korea plans to spend KRW316.4 billion (EUR230 million, US$337 million) on its space programme this year, the government said according to Yonhap news agency.