PanAmSat in play, “Merge with Eutelsat”
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The world’s satellite industry professionals meet in Washington DC this week for their annual gab-fest, and much of the talk on the conference floor will concern those perennial questions of ’who is buying whom?’ This time last year it was Eutelsat’s name that was firmly in the gossip frame. This week it is PanAmSat (PAS), although Eutelsat is still managing to make some headlines, and an investment bank report gave one possible outcome for both companies, suggesting PAS could merge with Eutelsat, and in the process create “the largest fixed satellite service player in the industry with an enviable collection of video-centric satellites.”

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