Broadband

PARIS — Five well-established satellite fleet operators have established common  Earth station antenna-performance and testing criteria…

MANCHESTER, England — Satellite fleet operator Avanti Communications reported a 30% decline in revenue for the…

PARIS— June 1’s successful Ariane 5 launch was a key event for the 2018 revenue of…

SINGAPORE — Asian satellite fleet operators said linear TV still has many years of growth ahead…

SINGAPORE — Satellite service providers said they are bracing for a new attack on their business…

  UPDATE: ViaSat said the two ViaSat-3 satellites under contract are on schedule and within budget.…

SINGAPORE — The chief executive of O3b Networks on May 24 flatly denied allegations by competitor…

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] SINGAPORE — Start-up satellite constellation operator OneWeb on…

Takeaways from ViaSat CEO Dankberg’s May 17 investor conference remarks:

— LEO constellations: ‘I don’t understand OneWeb/SpaceX. Few care about latency.’
— ViaSat-2: 100-200 Mbps for residential users, wireless model in Lat Am.
— 6-month penalty vs Hughes’s Jupiter-2 will evaporate in 6 months.
— Gogo’s 2Ku service is ‘just an antenna. The issue is satellite capacity.’
— A prospective ban on laptops on commercial flights won’t materially damage larger IFC market.