NSR’s Global Satellite Capacity Supply and Demand, 16th Edition report, released today, confirms despite a challenging current climate for capacity sales, long-term projections are promising with revenues doubling over the next 10 years. 

Three-quarters of the world’s pay TV operators will gain subscribers between 2018 and 2024. Covering 505 operators across 135 countries, the Global Pay TV Operator Forecasts report also estimates that two-thirds will increase their revenues over the same period.

Simon Murray, principal analyst at Digital TV Research, added: “The top 50 operators accounted for two-thirds of the world’s pay TV subscribers by end-2018, with this proportion not expected to change over the next five years. The top 10 operators took 45% of the total by end-2018.”

Co-operation between Paradigm and UHP is set to continue with the integration of the UHP-200 modem into Paradigm’s field-proven PIM. The PIM is an easy-to-use, environmentally rugged terminal controller which enables mobile satellite terminals to be pointed and optimised quickly by non-technical users.

The PIM supports the UHP-200 modem, providing impressively high data rates on a range of high throughput satellites utilising UHP-based networks.  Operations using Paradigm’s ‘internet-in-a-backpack’ SWARM® terminal have delivered IP data rates exceeding 20Mbps duplex.

CETel, a satellite communications and network service provider, announces the acquisition of UK-based Cobbett Hill Earth Station Limited in terms of an asset purchase transaction for an undisclosed amount.

The Inspiring Girls Foundation and Hispasat, the Spanish satellite communications operator, today hosted the event entitled “Girls and the Space Sector" in the Space Centre of the National Aerospace Technical Institute (INTA) in Maspalomas, the Canary Islands, with 50 girls attending from the Guanarteme de Las Palmas high school.