As the nuns said so musically in The Sound of Music: ‘How do you solve a problem like Maria?’ The same could be true of DISH Network, and the question would be ‘How do you truly value DISH? Superficially, Charlie Ergen’s very mature DISH Network had a – sort of – reasonable Q2. Its subscriber […]
Eutelsat’s CEO Rodolph Belmer told analysts on August 1st that he was staying the view to be “more prudent than most of estimates made at the moment” of the potential revenue gains from the reassignment of C-band spectrum over the US. Eutelsat has only around 5 per cent of the C-band market over the US […]
A year from now and the FCC should have its answer for the consortium of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat (and Intel) in their quest to sell some of their C-band satellite spectrum over the US. The consortium is offering an initial 100 MHz of bandwidth, but some members of the FCC are saying 200-300 MHz of […]
Telesat has signed contracts with a consortium comprising Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies/SS-L to carry out the preliminary design for the proposed ‘super constellation’ of Telesat Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. Telesat wants to operate an initial 120 LEO satellites, and have them in orbit by 2021. Ottawa-based Telesat, in its statement, said the […]
A 12.13 per cent share price rise for satellite operator SES in a single day (to €17.28 on July 27th) is the perfect verdict on a set of results that went down extremely well with the market. It was also recognition that new CEO Steve Collar has put behind him the terrible 2017 period of […]
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), an old-established name in the satellite manufacturing industry and now owned by Canada-based Maxar Technology, is considering ceasing its geostationary satellite building business. A report by equity analysts at the Bank of Montreal cites the shortage of contracts for large commercial satellites at its SS/L facility at Palo Alto, California. The bank […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) says its over-the-air beam-hopping concept, based on the DVB-S2X satellite broadcasting standard, works. The concept enables capacity to be redirected between a satellite’s transmitted beams and thus making satellite systems more flexible and efficient. ESA’s BEHOP (Beam Hopping Emulator for Satellite Systems), developed in conjunction with Germany’s Fraunhofer IIS, Eutelsat […]
Discovery Communications had a good day on July 19th, rising an impressive 3.8 per cent in terms of its stock value, following a positive report on its prospects from investment bankers at Goldman Sachs. The bank’s analyst Drew Borst upgraded its advice to investors to “Conviction Buy” and a guide price of $33. However, not […]
Headlines on July 17th seemed happy to twist the knife in on Netflix, and all because of a small bump on its – more usual – road of successive and steady successes. Analysis of the numbers throw up some staggering information: In the UK, for example, where its citizens allegedly have “the best TV in […]
The fact that a company with under $15 billion of forecast annual revenue and less than 10 per cent net margin can lose $25 billion of market value in a day gives some idea of how overhyped the stock was in the first place – it came close to $200 billion of value before the […]