Satellite News

Abertis Infraestructuras SA reportedly told the Spanish government that it may lead an offer for Hispasat SA to prevent an Initial Public Offering for the satellite operator.

WorldSpace announced results for the first quarter of 2007 ending 31 March 2007.

Bids were due today for Satelites Mexicanos, and the winner could be announced next week — if there is one, that is.

Gilat Satcom Ltd. said it plans to invest about US$2.3 million and buy bandwidth capacity in an Eastern Africa submarine cable system project through its wholly-owned unit Gilat Satcom Nigeria Ltd.

German politicians try to convince their EU colleagues that a restructured Galileo would be billions of euros cheaper, while the companies that form the Galileo consortium have threatened further delays should the EU Commission go ahead with its plan to have a new call for tenders.

RAMTelecom Inc. and SkyPort Global Communications Inc. announced that they have reached a mutual agreement to terminate the proposed acquisition of RAMTelecom by SkyPort and, alternatively, strengthen their alliance.

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has purchased a 4,300 m^2 facility in El Segundo, California, USA. The facility will serve as the home of the engineering and production operations of COM DEV USA.

Telenor ASA announced that it will seek to be delisted from the NASDAQ Stock Market. Telenor’s U.S. reporting obligations will be deregistered and terminated accordingly.