Asia-Pacific - Market Trends


Cambridge, Mass., August 1, 2018

NSR’s Big Data Analytics via Satellite, 2nd Edition report, published today, finds downstream Big Data solutions continue on a sustained growth path over the next decade, largely driven by Earth Observation and M2M/IoT applications in several key markets. Big Data analytics via satellite will generate close to US$ 18.1 billion in cumulative revenues by 2027, owing to increasing demand from end users in the transportation, government & military and energy sectors.

Cambridge, Mass., July 26, 2018

NSR’s Global Satellite Capacity Supply & Demand, 15th Edition report, published today, finds satellite capacity revenues continue a long-range growth path of 6.8% CAGR over the next decade.  However, near term caution persists as business models pivot to data-centric & HTS applications, amidst a projected video-centric capacity revenue loss over US$ 2 billion by 2027.  Emerging data use cases, such as Mobility, Cellular Backhaul and Broadband Connectivity

Middlesex, UK, July 25, 2018

Three Chinese companies will top the Asia Pacific SVOD rankings by subscribers in 2023. Not expected to ever operate as standalone platforms in China, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will take fourth and fifth places respectively.

New York City, July 24, 2018

A new World Teleport Association (WTA) research report released today has revealed that independent teleport operators' service growth is pausing after three years of growth, pricing for teleport services holds its own while capacity prices fall, and competition keeps ramping up to lower costs for customers.

The report, which explores the 2017 Top Operators rankings, says revenue diversification is trending downward as companies dig deeper into their niches.

Cheseaux, Switzerland, July 24, 2018

A 2018 Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Innovation Forum has revealed that the pay-TV industry in Asia Pacific region is experiencing significant challenges, driven by the proliferation of high-quality OTT services and widespread piracy. With consumers in both advanced and emerging countries in the region increasingly choosing streaming services, pay-TV providers expect to see a slowdown in growth and, in some mature markets, a decline in revenue from traditional pay-TV services, while demand for fixed and mobile connectivity services is expected to grow.

Dublin, Ireland, July 23, 2018

The Global Satellite Payloads Market accounted for $10.98 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $26.51 billion by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 10.3%.

Dublin, Ireland, July 15, 2018 

The application of satellites led by the military and the civil sector is increasing at a tremendous pace and the global satellite manufacturing and launch system market is expected to register a CAGR of 5.32% to reach USD25.90 billion by the year 2023.

Oyster Bay, New York, Jul 12, 2018

The rapid and increasing number of worldwide 4K flat panel TV shipments over the past few years is contributing to the overall growth of the global flat panel TV market. 4K TV units account for more than one-third of the total flat panel TV units sold in 2017.

ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, forecasts that 4K flat panel TV shipments will surpass 102 million in 2018, representing 44% of total global flat panel TV shipments.

Cambridge, Mass., July 2, 2018

NSR’s Maritime SATCOM Markets, 6th Edition report, published today, forecasts Maritime SATCOM will generate US$ 36 Billion in cumulative revenues through 2027.  Driven by the migration of unconnected vessels to MSS, MSS customers to VSAT, and VSAT vessels to even higher throughputs, revenue growth will approach 7% from 2017 – 2027. 

Paris, France,  June 19, 2018

According to Euroconsult's newly release report, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment & Connectivity, over 23,000 commercial aircraft will offer connectivity to th