“I don’t see a great prognosis for the satellite industry. The operators may have a different perspective, but the demand for consumer services via satellite has been going down, both from a Freesat and pay-TV perspective,” Media Partners Asia (MPA) Vice President Aravind Venugopal, one of the most respected market analysts in the Asia-Pacific region, told…

The satellite world is buzzing with the emergence of new HTS players in Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), and mega constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As users of technology, we all want more. More data, ubiquitous connectivity, and high reliability, so satellite operators are meeting our hunger for bandwidth by building…

Tata Sky and Dish TV India (Dish TV) are two of the world’s biggest success stories when it comes to global satellite pay-TV over the last few years. We talk to two of the biggest influencers in Indian pay-TV and broadcasting: Harit Nagpal, CEO of Tata Sky, and Anil Dua, group CEO of Dish TV…

Fighting piracy is a carrot-and-stick game. The carrot is that you have to provide great services and great content — and the stick is to hit the organizations that are trying to make money off of your business model. The threats to broadcast are evolving. Previously, threats were based around smart card hacking of pay-TV…