Intelsat has revealed its Q2 numbers with CEO Stephen Spengler saying that there were continued pricing pressures as services renew for certain wide-beam network services applications, creating a headwind to year over year growth. There had also been some non-renewals of capacity contracts. These pressures led to a fall in Intelsat’s contracted backlog, from $8.5 […]
Arqiva, the UK’s leading communications infrastructure and media services company, and Eutelsat Communications have announced an agreement that strengthens their relationship at the premium 28° East video neighbourhood. The multi-year, multi-transponder agreement covering high-power transponders at 28° East reinforces Arqiva’s competitive position as a leading service provider for DTH services in the UK and Ireland. […]
Telesat of Canada, the world’s 4th-largest staellite operator has issued their Q2 revenues which have disappointed the market. For the 3-months ended June 30th, Telesat reported consolidated revenues of Can$226 million, or a decline of 3 per cent (Can$6 million) from the same period in 2016. “The decline in revenue was primarily due to short-term […]
Arabsat has fine-tuned its transmissions to Tunisia via an arrangement with the country’s Office National de la Télédiffusion Tunisien (ONT). The agreement, signed in February, sees the establishment of a dedicated Tunisian video platform broadcasting from Arabsat’s powerful BADR-4 satellite at its 26 degrees East ‘hot spot’. The bundle is now ‘live’ and comprises Tunisia […]
With an additional nine TV operators joining SES’s Ultra HD trials, a total of 30 US pay-TV providers, with a combined audience of more than 10 million subscribers, are now testing SES’s 4K content delivery platform across their distribution networks. The latest wave of pay-TV system operators to ink Ultra HD trial agreements with SES […]
Indian business giant Mukesh Ambani who is chairman & MD of Reliance Industries, itself India’s second largest business, and India’s richest individual, used the company’s AGM to showcase a new smartphone, the advanced JioPhone which he says will permit users to view JioTV and Jio Cinema as well as make calls, and in the process, […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is already proving to be an amazing company, thanks to increased reliability of its rocket launches and now multiple successes in the landing and refurbishing of the Falcon 9’s 1st stage. But Musk, speaking at the International Space Station R&D Conference in Washington, DC, told delegates that the ultra-speedy 24-hour rocket landing-to-reuse […]
Losing a satellite is traumatic for any satellite operator, its clients and even the financial community. But the loss of AMC-9 which failed on June 16th (from 83 deg West) and is now drifting harmlessly and inert, has seen its clients almost completely replaced. SES has drifted AMC-6 to 83 degrees West, according to a […]
According to research from consultancy firm Dataxis, pay-TV piracy reached 7 per cent of TV households in Latin America, with 11.8 million consumers. Dataxis suggests total illegal access to pay-TV could be positioned as the third largest player on the market, behind América Móvil and DirecTV. However, Dataxis predicts that piracy will maintain a slight […]
On July 28th, both of Europe’s major satellite operators unveil their results. SES will reveal its half-year numbers and Eutelsat its full-year figures. The event has prompted equity analyst Sami Kassab at Exane/BNP-Paribas to examine the prospects for the two companies. Kassab makes it clear that he currently favours Eutelsat over SES. He says: “We see […]