Market Trends

Cambridge, Mass., September 22, 2020--NSR’s HTS Satellite Constellations, A Critical Assessment, 3^rd Edition report finds a US$ 68 Billion Revenue Potential for HTS Satellite Constellations over the next decade, with varying levels of business case viability.  Opportunity exists for SpaceX, OneWeb, mPower, Amazon, and Telesat to build fundamentally sound constellation businesses via high throughput, low latency, ubiquitous coverage and end-to-end secure connectivity. Although competition from GEO and within NGSO is expected to be high, there is a large enough pie to divvy up enabled by new segments. 

Los Angeles, Calif., September 22, 2020-- Highspeedinternet.com surveyed 1,000 Americans to find out what they believed about today’s latest technologies, including 5G cellular networks and low-Earth orbit satellites from Space X’s Starlink network. Their findings are a little surprising, including: 

London, UK, September 21, 2020--Western Europe will have 191 million SVOD subscriptions by 2025; more than double from 90 million at end-2019. About 35 million subscribers will be added in 2020 alone, with the Covid lockdown having a major effect according to Digital TV Research.

New York City, NY, September 21, 2020–While pandemic-driven lockdowns may have benefited certain forms of media, the traditional pay TV industry is not one of them. In fact, cable, satellite, and telecom TV providers will lose the most subscribers ever. More than 6 million US households will cut cable this year according to a new study by emarketer.com.

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Foster City, Calif., September 15, 2020--Conviva repeased today the State of Streaming report focusing on Asia.  While the world’s increase in viewing time raced ahead 63% in Q2 2020, Asia recorded the smallest gains, inching up 2% over the previous year, according to the report. Some of the highlights of the report's findings include:

Lagos, Nigeria, September 15, 2020--The 2020 Edition of African Space Industry Annual Report has been released by Space in Africa. The report provides analyses on the growing demand for space technologies and data on the continents, the business opportunities it offers and the necessary regulatory environment in the various countries. The report also contains information on all 69 pending satellites from Africa between now and 2024.

Dublin, Ireland, September 14, 2020--Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Commercial Satellite Imaging estimated at US$4.4 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$8.3 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 9.4% over the analysis period 2020-2027. Military & Defense, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 10% CAGR and reach US$3.9 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After an early analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Forestry & Agriculture segment is readjusted to a revised 8.9% CAGR for the next 7-year period.

London, UK, September 11, 2020--There will be 27.16 million paying SVOD subscriptions for 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa by 2025, up from 10.95 million recorded at end-2019 according to Digial TV Research. Turkey will remain the country leader, with 11.30 million subscriptions by 2025.

Paris, Frnace, September 9, 2020 – In its latest research, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, Euroconsult provides a strategic review of the market reset resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and its significant impact on the aviation industry. In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) has been a key driver for the entire ecosystem and constituted a $1.4 billion market in 2019. Current restrictions on travel and health concerns, however, are expected to decrease service revenues by 20-30 percent in 2020.