Market Trends

New York, NY, April 14, 2023 – The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released "Ground Segment: Just a Service?", a new research report that examines the differing business models of today’s ground-segment-as-a-service (GSaaS) providers, the markets they serve, and the issues around integrating a teleport’s physical and data systems with this new class of service providers.

Paris, France, April 12, 2023 - Internet usage has doubled in the past eight years, with an estimated 67% of the world population using broadband services in 2022, according to the world’s leading authority on space and satellite-based applications markets, Euroconsult. From access to public services such as remote health advice to remote working and learning and the ability to communicate opinions and share information, universal connectivity has become an increasing priority for governments across the globe.

London, UK, April 4, 2023  - Inmarsat is one of 27 signatories to The Space Safety Coalition, which has today published new guidelines for organisations working in space in the face of an exponential increase in the number of spacecraft being launched.

South Africa, April 1, 2023 - The most developed country in Sub-Saharan Africa, should finally switch off its analogue TV signal, 8 years after the original deadline fixed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Indeed, on 16 June 2006, the ITU signed an agreement with 54 African countries to switch off the analogue TV signal by 17 June 2015. The objective of such migration to digital television has been to offer consumers not only improved sound and image quality but also a greater diversity of content: with the same bandwidth of 8MHz, digital can offer up to 20 TV channels while analogue was usually limited to one. The transition to digital would offer a wider range of content to consumers and also free up bandwidth for other services, especially mobile broadband.

Bristol, UK, March, 22, 2023 - Connected car revenues to quadruple by 2030 at US$ 244 Billion. Car connectivity will accelerate over the next 7 years and reach 828.7 million, triple the 279.3 million of 2022, as old models are retired and embedded mobile network access becomes standard on ever more vehicles rather than just luxury models. 

Bristol, UK, March 21, 2023 - More so than any other content vertical, live sports seem to be the definitive means by which our industry values a video service. With live sports comes a captive fanbase that are willing to jump through hoops to watch the games, as well as one or two zeitgeist moments of the calendar year which will draw astonishing traffic to whichever service is playing host.

Berlin, Germany, March 20, 2023 -  At Q3 2022, OTT pay TV and IPTV offers crossed the 50% penetration of pay TV subscriptions mark in Western Europe, highlighting the continuous progression of OTT services and its adoption by telecom operators according to new research from Dataxis.

Middlesex, UK, March 15, 2023 - OTT TV episode and movie revenues for 22 Eastern European countries will reach US$ 5.7 billion in 2028; nearly double from $2.9 billion in 2022.

London, U.K. March 13, 2023 - Western European pay TV revenues will decline by nearly US$ 5 billion between 2022 and 2028 to US$ 22 billion – down by 18%. The pay TV subscriber count will drop by 7%, so revenues will fall faster – revealing lower TV ARPUs and less emphasis on TV from the operators.

Barcelona, Spain, March 1, 2023 — NPAW, the global leader in video business intelligence and predictive analytics, today released the findings of its 2022 Video Streaming Industry Report. The fourth iteration of its annual study reveals that although global streaming adoption continued growing overall in 2022, the myriad content options launched in the past two years mean that individual services on average captured a smaller share of users’ daily watching time.