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1worldspace, known for most of its existence simply as WorldSpace, is a defunct satellite radio network that in its heyday provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern, southern and northern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India. It was profitable in India, with 450,000 subscribers.
[2] In May 2020, the WorldSpace brand name was retired and replaced by axe for each of Deque's products. [3] In September 2020, Deque found that the majority of vote by mail applications were inaccessible, and fixed them for the 2020 Presidential Election. [4] [5] [6] [7]
As of 2013 Worldspace is defunct, but two satellites are in orbit which still have a few channels. See main WorldSpace article. Each satellite provides three transmission beams that can support 50 channels each, carrying news, music, entertainment, and education, and including a computer multimedia service.
U-Pop was a satellite radio channel programmed by Washington, DC–based 1worldspace.U-Pop could originally be heard globally on WorldSpace's Afristar and Asiastar satellites.
WorldSpace was founded by Ethiopia-born lawyer Noah Samara in Washington, D.C., in 1990, [8] with the goal of making satellite radio programming available to the developing world. [9] On June 22, 1991, the FCC gave WorldSpace permission to launch a satellite to provide digital programming to Africa and the Middle East . [ 2 ]
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