Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES Networks: MNOs want managed services, so vertical integration is coming

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — Intelsat, SES Networks and Eutelsat agreed that today’s satellite fleet operators will become more vertically integrated because customers, including mobile network operators, are demanding full managed services.

Not so long ago, all three of these companies, like most other satellite fleet owners, rejected the idea that closed systems such as what Hughes Network Systems, Viasat Inc. and Inmarsat offer are the industry’s future.

They still have reservations along those lines, and for example have . . .

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