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 […]
India’s hugely competitive DTH pay-TV market shows no sign of slowing. The latest operator to declare numbers is telco Bharti Airtel which has seen is DTH arm add a net 479,000 new subscribers during the three months to the end of June. It is significantly well ahead of the previous quarter’s 230,000 net growth. The […]
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 […]
India’s Department of Space along with its satellite development arm, India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are both looking to persuade DTH broadcasters to shift their contracts from non-Indian satellite operators to Indian-managed spacecraft. Currently, international operators such as SES supply considerable satellite capacity targeting Indian DTH viewers. Rajya Sabha, a minister of state in the […]
Analysts at research specialist Frost & Sullivan, in a study of the prospects for satellite-based connectivity services, say that downstream digital transformation, increased usage of Internet-of-Things (IoT), system upgrades by large enterprises, and remote location connectivity are key factors driving satellite-based connectivity service evolution. Frost & Sullivan anticipates increased price competition with high demand for […]
The world’s two largest satellite operators, Intelsat and SES, have enjoyed remarkable valuations of their US-focused C-band spectrum, and the prospects of the FCC permitting a restructuring of that spectrum in favour of 5G. However, the prospective valuations depend on US wireless telcos paying reasonably competitive prices for the spectrum on offer. The formula to […]
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 […]
Lockheed Martin (LM) has finished work on its building of the much-awaited Hellas Sat-4 satellite. Hellas Sat-4 is a joint enterprise between Arabsat and its subsidiary Hellas Sat and the Saudi Arabian King Abdul Aziz City for Science & Technology. The Saudi payload is dubbed Saudi GeoSat-1. The craft is the second of two LM […]
India has made a major commitment to protecting its future demands for satellite capacity, for DTH broadcasting, as well as scientific missions. India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has spread orders across three industries, two private and one government based, to build an initial 9 satellites, with options and flexibility for that number to be expanded […]
India’s Jammu & Kashmir regional government is asking local cable MSOs and cable operators to immediately drop at least 30 “banned private satellite channels” in order to maintain “peace and tranquility” in the Northern India region, which borders the Himalaya mountains and Pakistan. The Times of India newspaper is reporting that last week cable operators […]