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A basic premise of government regulation in the post-liberalization telecommunications world has been that regulations and government benefits should be technology neutral. This has resulted in a number of benefits […]

I was actually on vacation in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts when the first email alert hit my smartphone that Thursday morning about the SpaceX explosion at the Cape, the […]

Via Satellite recently spoke to Winston Beauchamp, a member of the Senior Executive Service, the deputy under secretary of the Air Force for space, and the director, principal DOD space […]

The Middle East and Africa continues to offer one of the largest addressable markets for satellite broadband. With just 15 percent of African households having internet access, challenging geographies, underdeveloped […]

The recognition that space activities, services and products play a central role in the sustainable social and economic development of states has led to a clear increase in the number […]

On May 19 this year the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the Zika virus had been detected off the north west coast of Africa for the first time. Tests […]

Over-The-Top (OTT) television has been little short of a phenomenon in recent years. Netflix, for example, was a company that almost no one had heard of a few years ago, […]

There is no doubt that OTT video is growing at a rapid pace. Based on our 2015 ConsumerLab TV and Media study*, 80 percent of teenagers and 30 percent of […]

Over the past several years, including most recently at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15), the satellite industry has had a run of remarkable success in protecting its spectrum “turf” […]

The Opportunity Perhaps the single most important development for the growing SmallSat industry will be low cost access to space. This will be the game-changing technology that opens up the […]

Lawful interception obligations have again been brought into focus after recent terrorist attacks. What does this mean for the satellite industry and how can data interception impact it?

As winter fades, and Spring starts to set in, one thing you can always guarantee at this time of year is that the satellite industry is in full bloom and […]

What happened at the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) with regard to the study of future bands for 5G services, most notably, the 28 GHz band, has taken center stage […]

Operator of the Year: O3b Networks There is little doubt that O3b had an incredible year in 2015 signing well over 30 deals and cementing itself as one of the […]

I first met Ryan Wallace, Facebook’s technical program manager within Connectivity Deployments, at VSAT Global in London last year. In fact, I interviewed him on stage. Typically, he was on […]

Talk is nice, but as we all know too well, action is what really matters. For example, there have been a lot of good words spoken over the years about […]

In a robust move to encourage investment and support commercial activities for the mining of space resources by U.S. citizens and companies, President Obama signed the Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015 in November 2015.

Once again, the satellite industry can breathe a sigh of relief at having apparently dodged a bullet at the most recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference. While some minor incursions were […]

While cord cutting is one risk for pay-TV providers, the most acute problem could be the progressive emergence of a new demographic segment that has never paid for TV content.

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Satellites can be key players in the global response to the migration crisis, offering unique monitoring and humanitarian communication capabilities.

Latency in satellite communications has long been considered a fundamental limitation, but new developments are challenging that assumption.

As new HTS systems come online over Africa, the question remains whether purchasing power on the continent can drive a viable commercial satellite business.

The next three to five years of video industry development in Asia Pacific could be about two parallel ecosystems, which, depending on the market and the trend, will either collide […]

In the business of space there is much competition between states. Many governments are competing to attract companies to submit ITU filings through their national administration or to apply for […]

With the issuance of one resolution this past April, His Highness Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, […]

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 […]

Imagine you’re a young twenty-something and you’ve just graduated college. The entire world is open to you — particularly an entire world of jobs, because you just earned a Science, […]

The death toll from the Ebola virus in West Africa has exceeded 10,000 since the first reported case in December 2013. Cases of the highly contagious disease have been confirmed […]

China is estimated to have the world's fourth largest government expenditures for civil space programs. However, its commercial satellite communication market is still in the developing stage.