Maritime connectivity provider KVH: Our Q2 Starlink, OneWeb revenue surpassed decline in heritage GEO VSAT business

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — Maritime connectivity provider KVH Industries Inc., which has overhauled its business to accommodate the market pull of Starlink and the challenges of geostationary-orbit-satellite broadband services, may have found a way to balance both.

Revenues are still down from where they were a year ago as customers move of GEO-based capacity in favor of LEO. But KVH in September 2023 KVH began and authorized Starlink hardware and airtime reseller. In June 2024 it paid Starlink $17 million for a bulk capacity purchase at favorable rates, giving KVH flexibility . . .

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