Author: Giovanni Verlini
July 1, 2012
Bandwidth management has become a key issue for operators and customers alike. The question is just how far can the technology go in improving efficiency, and are we about to reach the limits of what can be done technology-wise? Maximizing the finite resource of bandwidth and using it efficiently is a key challenge facing end-users,…
November 1, 2011
The Middle East and Africa remain fertile grounds for satellite with the demand for capacity significantly increasing. Yet, with fiber rollouts growing, do these markets still represent a golden opportunity for satellite? At a time of gloomy reports from the world’s financial markets, the news that mobile telephony is nearing the end of its worldwide…
August 1, 2011
With more and more countries around the world looking to develop a space based capability, but wanting to do it on a budget, it has never been a better time to be a small satellite manufacturer. Here, we look at international developments in the small satellite market, and why countries all the way from Nigeria…
June 1, 2011
Market forces alone might not be enough to attain universal service in the broadband era. The satellite sector should endeavor to find its place in the array of technologies supported by mechanisms like the U.S. Universal Service Fund. The average reader surely has heard it and read it several times before, but the refrain on…