News Analysis

Colorado Springs, Colo., May 6, 2020--Amergint Technology Holdings today announced it has acquired Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI), a leader in new space solutions for the small satellite market. The transaction will bring together Amergint Technologies, Inc. and TUI to provide integrated end-to-end solutions for satellite communications and in-space services to the space market.

Nonthaburi, Thailand, May 5, 2020–Thaicom Public Company Limited announced its financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2020. The Company’s net profit for Q1/2020 was Baht 198 million, a significant improvement as compared to the net loss of Baht 33 million for Q1/2019 and Baht 1,969 million for Q4/2019. Thaicom reported revenues from sales and services for Q1/2020 of THB 965 million, down 26% from Q1/2019, mainly due to the decrease of revenue from broadband customers churned during 2019, also from the Thaicom 5 satellite deorbit. 

May 5, 2020--This month the Satellite Markets and Research asked executives of satellite companies from all over the world on what impact has the global COVID-19 pandemic has had on their business and what measures have they taken to respond to the crisis and how they see their companies emerging from all these.  The companies represent a cross-section of the various segments of the industry including manufacturers and service providers.  Here are their responses:

by Lou Zacharilla

New York City, NY, May 4, 2020--They can call it what they want.  I call it “UNsocial distancing.” Let’s face it, living life online sucks.  It always has.  It always will.  I’m sorry.  I just like being with people.  I like schmoozing.  I like talking – about anything. I even can tolerate close talkers who spit a little – although not these days!  

by Hari Aburri

May 4, 2020--If there’s one thing the global business community has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to ebb, flow and unfold on the daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corner of the world in its wake, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.”  In fact, agility is rapidly establishing itself as “the great equalizer,” asserting its unbridled authority over which companies—from global conglomerates to mom and pops...and EVERYTHING in between—will survive another day. 

by Hub Urlings, Herbie Rijndorp and Marco Franken

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 4, 2020--Recent developments in IoT connectivity and the coming of ubiquitous global low cost IoT connectivity are bound to cause a major technology disruption in the meteorological  world.  

The May 2020 issue of  the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine is now available.  Featuring:

Vertical Markets for Satellite IoT by Hub Urlings, Herbie Rijndorp and Marco Franken

Business Agility Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hari Abburi

Satellite Companies' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic 

The Satellite Ecosystem and COVID-19  by Martin Jarrold

Better Satellite World Series: In Search of the World's Missing Girls

Zoom This  by Lou Zacharilla

PLUS Mergers and Acquisitions, Executive Moves, Market Briefs, Vital Statistics, Satellite Markets 20 Stock Index and many more. Click here to read or download the file

Middletown, RI, May 1, 2020--KVH Industries reported Net loss from continuing operations in the first quarter of 2020 of  US$ 6.2 million, or $0.35 per share, compared to a net loss of $6.5 million, or $0.38 per share in the first quarter of 2019. •Non-GAAP net loss from continuing operations in the first quarter of 2020 was $4.3 million, or $0.25 per share, compared to $3.8 million, or $0.22 per share in the first quarter of 2019.

by Martin Jarrold

London, UK, Masy 1, 2020--In starting to draft this column it was impossible not to be affected by the news that the official global figure for Covid-19 fatalities was approaching 250,000. The zoonotic – interspecies – jump to humans and subsequent pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has badly impacted many of the world’s most advanced and richest countries, but the epidemiology tells us that the worst of the impact, on the less-developed world, is still to come.

New York City, NY, April 1, 2020-Millions of girls are missing. They are missing from school. They are missing from jobs. They are missing from the leadership of their communities and nations.