The Society of Satellite Professionals International is a nonprofit member-benefit society that serves satellite professionals throughout their working lives. With chapters in the Americas, Europe and Asia, SSPI promotes the development of high-quality satellite education, helps satellite professionals advance in their careers, works to increase the professional standing of members and honors extraordinary achievement by satellite professionals and the companies they work for.For more information please visit www.sspi.org

Since 1985, the World Teleport Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up. At the core of its membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global hybrid carriers. WTA is dedicated to helping teleport operators to improve their operations, develop their markets and grow their businesses within the $13 billion teleport sector of the global communications industry. Companies that do business with teleports also find that WTA is the best investment they can make to open new channels to the industry. For more information please visit www.worldteleport.org

The Association of Commercial Television in Europe, ACT, was formed in July 1989. Our object is to represent the business interests of the commercial television sector at the EU Institutions. Our 28 member companies are active in 28 European countries and encompass several business models, operating over 270 free-to-air and pay-TV channels and distributing 540 channels and 170 new services. Membership of the ACT is open to any private television broadcasting company in Europe that approves the ACT's statutes of association. To see the core principles of the ACT, agreed by our CEOs in 2002, click HERE www.acte.be/usermodule/en/act.asp.

The CBA is a unique association of the world’s leading Public Service Broadcasters. It was founded in 1945 as the Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference, bringing together representatives of six broadcasting organisations. Today, more than 100 broadcasters, regulators and manufacturers from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Australasia, the Pacific, North and South America belong to the association. The CBA aims to support and further the concept of public service broadcasting by providing assistance to members through training, bursaries, consultancies, networking opportunities and content for broadcast. It also facilitates and supports high quality broadcasting globally by enabling information exchange and dialogue between broadcasters in the developed world and those in emerging nations and less developed countries.

The Digital TV Group (DTG) is the industry association for digital television in the UK and is independent and platform neutral. Formed in the mid 90s to facilitate the introduction of digital terrestrial TV in the UK, the group is now at the centre of UK digital TV development. It published and maintains the DTG 'D-Book' which sets out the detailed technical standards for digital terrestrial TV in the UK and runs the industry's test and conformance centre: DTG Testing. The DTG has ensured the delivery of a rich consumer experience, a vibrant and stable market, and helped position the UK as a world leader in the evolution of television.The group is presently focused on emerging consumer devices and experiences including high definition TV (HD), Mobile TV, video-on-demand (VoD) and broadband

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