Macquarie fund makes initial investment of US$280m in InSite Wireless
Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III (MIP III) has acquired a 42.5% stake in US towerco InSite Wireless from private equity firm ...
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Dish Network plans US$2bn convertible for strategic deals
Dish Network is planning a US$2bn convertible note offering, likely to be upsized to US$2.4bn, to fund strategic deals that are ...
OmniEarth abandons constellation plans saying UrtheCast partnership makes more sense
Earth observation analytics firm OmniEarth has mothballed plans to build its own smallsat constellation and is instead partnering with Canada’s UrtheCast. OmniEarth will help ...
Audacy mandates Portland as it eyes project financing for constellation too expensive for VC to foot alone
Newspace startup Audacy has mandated Portland Advisers to help secure project financing for its planned three-satellite space-based relay system and ...
Layer3 to use Altice funds to expand
Denver-based cable startup Layer3 TV plans to expand into the Chicago market using funds partly provided by French telecoms group ...
Verizon in US$6.15bn bond offering
Verizon Communications is selling US$6.15bn worth of senior unsecured notes to refinance existing debt and for general corporate purposes. Fitch has assigned ...
Sirius XM picks SSL for two replacement birds
US satellite radio provider Sirius XM has commissioned Space Systems Loral to design and build two birds, designed to replace the Boeing Satellite Systems-made ...
O’Connell replaced by Beranger at top of OneWeb
Global satellite broadband venture OneWeb has appointed Eric Beranger as its new CEO after parting company with Matt O’Connell who had only been in the post nine months. ...
Verizon CEO lauds Yahoo deal as analysts question it
Verizon chair and CEO Lowell McAdam has talked up the company’s US$4.83bn agreement to buy Yahoo’s core internet business amid mixed Q2 ...
Lockheed and HawkEye 360 partner on RF LEO solutions
Aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) is working with HawkEye 360 to develop applications for the US startup’s planned radio frequency-monitoring smallsat constellation. They aim to ...
