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| 08.01.2006 |
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Dollars And Sense: Content Control: Net Neutrality, Franchise Relief, Media Concentration
By Owen D. Kurtin This month we examine the net neutrality, franchise relief and media concentration debates. Anyone who thinks the satellite industry does not have a dog in this fight is wrong. Net neutrality refers to whether broadband network operators...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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Dollars & Sense: A Closer Look: DVB And IPTV
By Owen D. Kurtin The role that Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) by Internet Protocol (IP) is likely to play in the satellite industry has been a constant topic of industry discussion. We now speak about DVB and IPTV the way we spoke about broadband in 2002...
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| 06.01.2006 |
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Dollars And Sense: A Closer Look: Smallsats
Has the small satellite wave crested? Despite many predictions of industry trending to smaller, lighter, cheaper, more standardized, off-the-shelf space segment components, both fixed satellite service (FSS) and mobile satellite service (MSS) operators...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Dollars And Sense: A Close Look: Spectrum-Based Valuation
By Owen D. Kurtin Last month's column took a closer look at ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology and provides a natural lead-in to discuss the extraordinary spectrum-based valuations reportedly being assigned to some of the Mobile Satellite...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Dollars And Sense: A Closer Look: The ATC Promise
By Owen D. Kurtin This column has focused extensively over the last two years on the transformation of the satellite sector by private equity purchasers in 2004 and the initial public offerings and merger and acquisition activity of 2005. While the events of...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Dollars and Sense: Cash Or Stock (Part II): What Drives The Choice?
By Owen D. Kurtin Last month, we discussed the dynamics underlying an acquirer's offer of cash versus stock for a merger and acquisition target in the context of December's announcement that SES Global agreed to acquire New Skies Satellites Holdings. That the...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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SES Global-New Skies: Cash Or Stock (Part I)
By Owen D. Kurtin The announcement Dec. 14 that SES Global agreed to acquire New Skies Satellites for approximately $1.16 billion in cash and assumed debt capped a transformative year in the satellite operator sector. The first half of 2005 was dominated by...
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| 01.02.2006 |
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Dollars & Sense: Inmarsat-Eutelsat
By Owen D. Kurtin Early last year, we predicted that just as the story of 2004 was the entry of private equity firms into the satellite operator sector, the story of 2005 would be their faster- than-expected exits through initial public offerings (IPOs) and...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: A Look Back; A Look Ahead
By Owen D. Kurtin Last year, we predicted that 2004 might go down in history as the year that the satellite business started to rationalize itself, turned the corner of the disastrous first years of the 21st century and positioned itself to take on both...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Intelsat-Panamsat
By Owen D. Kurtin Earlier this year, this column devoted a four-part series to the earlier-than-anticipated exits of private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) companies into initial public offerings (IPOs). The announcement of Intelsat's...
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| 10.03.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Brand X, Broadband And The Satellite Sector
by Owen D. Kurtin The June launch of Wildblue Communication's broadband service preceded by only a few weeks a major legal milestone that promises to preserve broadband from burdensome regulation and enable it to develop. Since broadband has been the...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Are Options Still An Incentive? Are Options Still An Incentive?
by Owen D. Kurtin Throughout the telecom and Internet bubble of the 1990s, technology sector companies with high growth/low cash flow business plans counted on grants of stock options to attract and keep key employees. Options had a number of attractive...
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| 07.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Exit, Part IV: Being Public
by Owen D. Kurtin In our "Exit" series, we discussed in turn the motivation to undertake an IPO--an initial public offering (Part I: The Toll), the story to be told (Part II: Making the Market) and the process of going public itself (Part III...
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| 06.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Exit, Part III: Closing The Sale
By Owen D. Kurtin What many pronouncements about IPOs ignore is that the most stable, $100 million company that all but guarantees in its registration statement that it will be able to increase net profits payable as dividends to investors by 5 percent per...
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| 05.02.2005 |
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Exit, Part II: Making The Market
by Owen D. Kurtin Last time out, we started off looking at the series of upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs) by which last year's private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) operators are planning to partly or wholly divest themselves of...
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| 04.04.2005 |
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Dolars And Sense: Exit, Part I: The Toll
By Owen D. Kurtin In a two-part article in this space last year, "Private Equity: First the Good New/Now the Bad News," we examined the emergence of private equity buyers in the Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) sector, the defining event in satellite...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Satellite Insurance: A Facilitator Or Impediment To Doing Business?
By Owen D. Kurtin According to several published reports, satellite insurance premiums are approaching 25 percent of satellite procurement costs. As is widely known in the industry, launch/post-separation and in-orbit insurance have become one of the most...
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| 02.01.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Governance In The Age Of Private Equity
By Owen D. Kurtin, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP* In a two-article series last year, this column examined the potential positive and negative influences on the satellite industry of the emergent class of private equity shareholders in the...
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| 01.03.2005 |
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Dollars And Sense: Security And The Space Business
by Owen D. Kurtin The re-election of President George W. Bush means that a continued heightened governmental focus on the security aspects of the satellite business to the potential detriment of commercial considerations may be expected. The principal...
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| 12.01.2004 |
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Dollars And Sense: A Look Back; A Look Ahead
By Owen D. Kurtin 2004 may just go down in history as the year the satellite business started to rationalize itself, turned the economic corner and positioned itself to take on both terrestrial competition and the challenge of new service offerings. The year...
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