PARIS — Satellite fleet operators Eutelsat, EchoStar, Telesat and Viasat addressed how to make the best use of their current geostationary-orbit satellites and disagreed over whether these assets’ value is in terminal decline in a LEO-dominated world.
All agreed that consumer broadband will be taken over by LEO constellations, notably SpaceX Starlink and the future Amazon Project Kuiper, and by regulatory policies that favor terrestrial broadband and the advance of fixed wireless service.
Where they differed . . .
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