1.   The Luxembourg-based satellite service is not bound by the same strict rules as the BBC.

2.   Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility.

3.   Also delaying the final accord was a surprise move by U.S. negotiators on DBS, or direct broadcast satellite services.

4.   Ambassador John Weekes said, however, that Canada was considering an improved offer on satellite services.

5.   An alternative, however, is PrimeStar, a small-dish satellite service that supplies you with the hardware free of charge.

6.   Among their many government concessions, Shinawatra-controlled companies have monopolies on domestic satellite services, phone system frequencies and publishing rights for the official phone book.

7.   And companies only recently began to offer two-way satellite service that does not require a phone line.

8.   And ACeS will be the first venture to offer satellite service on cell phones small enough to fit in a pocket.

9.   And as deregulation picks up speed and demand for communications services outgrow existing infrastructure, satellite services could boom.