Last week, Eutelsat’s CEO Rodolphe Belmer met with the FCC’s Chairman Ajit Pai. Belmer said that satellite operators should receive an upfront ‘stage’ payment for handing over their spectrum. A report from analyst Sami Kassab at Exane/BNPP gives a detailed background to the event, saying that Belmer discussed the principles that should govern the transition, […]
There’s an old joke that boaters will know all about, which is how do you end up with a $1 million-value boat? The answer is to start off with a $2 million-value vessel and wait a year or two. Gareth Hollis, an analyst at investment bank Exane/BNPP has a variation on the joke, and he […]
There’s no shortage of public interest in the growth of new ‘mega-constellations’ of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites from the likes of Elon Musk (Starlink), Jeff Bezos (Kuiper) and Telesat of Canada. However, there’s plenty of other aerial activity taking place somewhat closer to the ground in the shape of high-altitude balloons and airships. These, […]
Giles Thorne, an equity analyst at investment bank Jefferies, says that the FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in deciding to favour an in-house FCC controlled auction of 300 MHz of satellite spectrum over the US, has engineered a “Gordian knot: a public auction that has political and legal legitimacy but a roadmap of relentless disruption by […]
There have been many formal filings to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by Eutelsat, explaining their strategy as far as the proposed reallocation of C-band is over the US. Inside Satellite spoke to a senior Eutelsat spokesperson on the background to their thinking, and in particular to their controversial proposals to offer up a 50 […]
Who’d have predicted that broadband would take centre stage in the UK election in such spectacular fashion? But then, who would have predicted much at all about the shambles that is British politics just now. The parties are united in recognising a market failure that has seen the UK languish at the bottom of developed […]
It is unlikely that the world’s two major satellite operators, Intelsat and SES, have ever experienced such dramatic collective meltdowns in their share prices. Of course, there have been profit warnings from time to time, but nothing to compare with this week’s catastrophic collapse in their company theoretical values. As this is written, SES has […]
World-be satellite operator LeoSat has abandoned its launch plans. It was reported back in September that LeoSat was having difficulty in raising the next stages of its financial needs. On Oct 21st Ronald van der Breggen, CEO, announced he had left the company leaving founder Mark Rigolle in charge. News has emerged from specialist newssite […]
Last week Eutelsat and the C-Band Alliance (CBA) submitted fresh filings to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Eutelsat’s was a radical series of suggestions, while the CBA gave further comprehensive details of how they would handle their $2.5 billion – $3.5 billion transition plan. However, Eutelsat’s dramatic intervention would – if accepted by the FCC […]
The news that Disney’s new OTT service Disney+ is in advanced talks for exclusive carriage on France’s Canal Plus is good news for the French pay-TV broadcaster, according to a report from investment analysts at Deutsche Bank. The fact that an extremely popular library of Disney content – not least Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar […]