Market Trends

Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2018 – NSR’s Energy Markets via Satellite, 7^th Edition report, released today, forecasts the major energy markets to yield nearly $1.6 Billion in Retail Revenues by 2027, up from $900M today.  Requiring 80 transponders of FSS capacity and 3.5 Gbps of HTS capacity spread across nearly 280,000 FSS, HTS, and MSS In-Service units for the global Energy Markets, the outlook for Energy SATCOM connectivity is slowly improving.  Although revenue growth remains in the low single-digits over much of the forecast period, by 2027 Oil & Gas (the largest opportunity by nearly any metric) remains nearly double the size of both the Mining and Utility segments.  Bottom Line, market instability is largely behind the Energy Markets, with a slow return to growth expected over the next ten years.

Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 2018 – NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 12^th Edition report, released today, forecasts annual satellite capacity revenues reaching $4 billion by 2027, serving over 3 Tbps of demand. Mobile Backhaul captures the greatest opportunities, as satellite usage increases among MNOs and becomes a widespread solution. Lower capacity prices are reviving Trunking, as new demand is emerging from previously un-addressable markets. IP Content Distribution also continued making solid progress with thousands of sites now active in this segment.
 

New York, NY, April 2, 2018–The World Teleport Association (WTA) released Sizing the Teleport Market 2018, a new research report that updates market sizing data last published in 2010. It enables readers to estimate the global and regional market share of a teleport operating company, identify potentially underserved regions for investment, and support due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.

Cambridge, Mass., March 29, 2018--NSR’s newly released High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), 2^nd Edition report forecasts US$ 1.7 Billion in cumulative HAPs revenues over the next decade for airships, balloons and pseudo-satellite platforms. Of the three platforms, the balloon market remains the largest and strongest driver of revenues.  Latin America, Africa and Asia present the largest service opportunity, mainly for communication and remote sensing applications, while North America and Europe dominate HAPs equipment revenues.

Dublin, Ireland, March 22, 2018--According to a new research report from Research and Markets, the Global Satellite Transponder Market accounted for US$ 15.35 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach US$ 28.65 billion by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 7.1% during the forecast period.

Cambridge, Mass.,  March 12, 2018 – NSR’s Satellite Capacity Pricing Index, 4^th Edition (Q1 2018), released today, finds capacity prices falling for a third straight year as operators seek out innovative strategies to arrest the decline.  On average, capacity price declines for the period 2016-2018 ranged from 32-57% across various applications & regions, and the road ahead appears unclear as greater supply enters the scene, demand lags in some markets and competition intensifies. 

Paris, France, March 8, 2018 - According to Euroconsult's newly-published report, Prospects for Maritime Satellite Communications, satellite connectivity in the maritime market will face booming bandwidth requirements coming not only from bandwidth-hungry passengers and crew but also from the overall development of smart applications.

Cambridge, Mass., March 1, 2018 – NSR’s Flat Panel Satellite Antennas, 3^rd Edition (FPA3) report forecasts cumulative FPA equipment sales to reach US$ 7.9 billion by 2027. As the only multi-client report on the FPA market today, NSR’s FPA3 finds aeronautical equipment will drive revenue growth for manufacturers, while fixed broadband applications on non-GEO satellites will be the main, long-term volume market.

Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 13, 2018--NSR’s industry-first China Satcom Markets (CSM) report, released today, finds a Chinese satellite industry primed to take a larger share of the global satcom market through attractive one-stop-shop offerings, aggressive growth plans and enhanced exports.  For GEO-HTS satellites alone, NSR forecasts Chinese state-owned companies to manufacture and launch over 800 Gbps of capacity by 2026, with much of this coming over Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South Asia. 

Paris, France, February 6, 2018- According to Euroconsult's newly-published report, FSS Operators: Benchmarks & Performance Review, the size of the FSS market has been relatively stable over the last five years (US$11.3 Billion), but behind this total significant changes have played out. The market share of the top four operators has gradually eroded to 60%, while three new companies (YahSat, Thaicom and Insat) have joined the top ten. Twelve new players have emerged in the past five years including three in 2017 (BRI, BulgariaSat and Telebras) for a total of 46 revenue-generating operators at year-end 2017.