List of communication satellite companies

This is a list of all companies currently operating at least one commercial communication satellite or currently has one on order.

International
Horizons RASCOM
Africa
Egypt — Nilesat Nigeria — NigComSat Ltd
Asia and Oceania
Australia SingTel Optus NewSat People's Republic of China Chinasat ChinaStar Sinosat Hong Kong APT Satellite Holdings Limited AsiaSat Bangladesh Bangabandhu-1 SPARRSO India Agrani ISRO/Antrix (INSAT) ISRO/DECU (EDUSAT・GSAT) Indonesia PT Datakom PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara PT Telkom Bank Rakyat Indonesia Iran — Iranian Space Agency Israel RRsat Station711 Spacecom Japan Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation NTT DoCoMo SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation Kazakhstan — JSC KazSat South Korea — KT Malaysia Binariang Sdn. Bhd. (MEASAT) Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission SUPARCO Pak Datacom Ltd Saudi Arabia — Arabsat Singapore Singapore Telecommunications NSSLGlobal Ltd Sri Lanka — Supreme Group (PVT) LTD Taiwan — Chunghwa Telecom Thailand — Thaicom/formerly Shin Satellite Tonga — TONGASAT United Arab Emirates Thuraya YahSat Vietnam — VNPT (VINASAT)

Europe
France Eutelsat France Télécom Stellat Télédiffusion de France Germany Deutsche Telekom OHB System Greece — Hellas-Sat Luxembourg Intelsat SES S.A. Fibersat S.A. Netherlands — SES World Skies Norway — Telenor Romania — Lamit Company Russia Russian Satellite Communications Company Gaskom Global Information Systems Intersputnik Media Most (Bonum) Spain Hisdesat Hispasat Sweden — Nordiska Satellitaktiebolaget Turkey Eurasiasat SAM Turksat United Kingdom Avanti Communications ICO Satellite Management Inmarsat iSat LTD NSSLGlobal Ltd

North America
Canada Ciel Satellite Group (Ciel-2) Telesat Mexico Satmex Mexsat United States AirTV Astrolink DirecTV EchoStar Globalstar Hughes Network Systems (Spaceway) International Satellite Communications Iridium Communications LightSquared Orbcomm PanAmSat Spacenet Sirius Satellite Radio Teledesic TerreStar ViaSat 1worldspace XM Satellite Radio XTAR
South America
Argentina INVAP Satellogic Venezuela Ministry of Science and Technology of Venezuela (Venesat-1) Brazil Star One INPE

v t e Satellite communication
Main articles	Satellite television Satellite radio Relay satellite Transponder Satellite Internet access Amateur satellites List of communications satellite firsts List of communication satellite companies Ground station more...
Hardware	Satellite Data Unit Satellite dish Satellite modem Very small aperture terminal Satellite phone
Satellite radio/TV	DVB-SH S-DMB DVB-RCS DVB-S2 Digital audio radio service more sat radio... more sat tv...
Broadcast radio/TV companies	Astra Digital Radio 1worldspace Sirius XM Radio Dish Network DirecTV AfriStar Sky Television plc
Relay satellite companies	EMC Corporation Inmarsat Iridium Communications SES Eutelsat Echostar Hughes Network Systems SED Systems Tooway Viasat Globalstar Telesat
Satellite manufacturing companies	Thales Alenia Space Astrium Arianespace Boeing Lockheed Martin Loral Orbital ATK INVAP
Trade organizations	ETSI Satellite Digital Radio Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
See also: Category:Communications satellites

v t e Telecommunications
History	Beacon Broadcasting Cable protection system Cable TV Communications satellite Computer network Data compression audio DCT image video Digital media Internet video online video platform social media streaming Drums Edholm's law Electrical telegraph Fax Heliographs Hydraulic telegraph Information Age Information revolution Internet Mass media Mobile phone Smartphone Optical telecommunication Optical telegraphy Pager Photophone Prepaid mobile phone Radio Radiotelephone Satellite communications Semaphore Semiconductor device MOSFET transistor Smoke signals Telecommunications history Telautograph Telegraphy Teleprinter (teletype) Telephone The Telephone Cases Television digital streaming Undersea telegraph line Videotelephony Whistled language Wireless revolution
Pioneers	Nasir Ahmed Edwin Howard Armstrong Mohamed M. Atalla John Logie Baird Paul Baran John Bardeen Alexander Graham Bell Emile Berliner Tim Berners-Lee Francis Blake (telephone) Jagadish Chandra Bose Charles Bourseul Walter Houser Brattain Vint Cerf Claude Chappe Yogen Dalal Daniel Davis Jr. Donald Davies Amos Dolbear Thomas Edison Lee de Forest Philo Farnsworth Reginald Fessenden Elisha Gray Oliver Heaviside Robert Hooke Erna Schneider Hoover Harold Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi Robert Metcalfe Antonio Meucci Samuel Morse Jun-ichi Nishizawa Charles Grafton Page Radia Perlman Alexander Stepanovich Popov Tivadar Puskás Johann Philipp Reis Claude Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred Vail Thomas A. Watson Charles Wheatstone Vladimir K. Zworykin
Transmission media	Coaxial cable Fiber-optic communication optical fiber Free-space optical communication Molecular communication Radio waves wireless Transmission line data transmission circuit telecommunication circuit
Network topology and switching	Bandwidth Links Nodes terminal Network switching circuit packet Telephone exchange
Multiplexing	Space-division Frequency-division Time-division Polarization-division Orbital angular-momentum Code-division
Concepts	Communication protocol Computer network Data transmission Store and forward Telecommunications equipment
Types of network	Cellular network Ethernet ISDN LAN Mobile NGN Public Switched Telephone Radio Television Telex UUCP WAN Wireless network
Notable networks	ARPANET BITNET CYCLADES FidoNet Internet Internet2 JANET NPL network Toasternet Usenet
Locations	Africa Americas North South Antarctica Asia Europe Oceania (Global telecommunications regulation bodies)
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