Earlier this year, Access Partnership highlighted the top ten trends we see for 2020 across the tech sector broadly, arising from regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), privacy, supply chain security, 5G, and other issues. The full report, Tech Policy Trends in 2020, is informed by our perspective as tech policy experts in all regions of the…

World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC) come around every three or four years, and provide the satellite industry an opportunity to seek spectrum and rationalize international regulations. Like other WRCs, November’s conference has a variety of opportunities and threats for the satellite industry.

European Commission (EC) policy, in its drive to advance the “Single Digital Market” — and therefore seamless operation of services across European Union (EU) borders — has encouraged a greater diversity of delivery mechanisms for aeronautical passenger connectivity, seeking to enable terrestrial backhaul in addition to satellite. The benefits of commercial choice are clear if…

Global providers of satellite broadband services potentially face an increasingly complex compliance burden as a result of a rapidly-developing data policy environment. Fueled by robust initiatives for law