Western European TV revenues will reach US$ 50 billion by 2023; up from US$ 39 billion in 2017, a new report has revealed. Digital TV Research said OTT revenues for TV episodes and movies (including AVOD) will more than double from US$ 10 billion to US$ 23 billion, which push OTT’s share of the total up from 26% to 46%.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, is bringing broadband connectivity to remote or hard-to-reach areas of the Mexico where there is no access to high-quality Internet, thereby helping reduce the digital gap that currently exists in the Mexican telecommunications market.

SATConsult, a member of the Euroconsult Group, has announced the appointment of David Chégnion as managing director. In this capacity, David will succeed Mustapha Elriz who founded the company in 2006 and has served as its CEO since this date.

Mobile backhaul and base station networking have long been an important business for satellite and teleport operators. It is humbling, then, to also acknowledge that satellites carried less than 1.4% of global mobile traffic in 2016, according to NSR.

The key themes emerging from the three major conferences held in Europe this September, (World Satellite Business Week, IBC and VSAT Global and Next Generation Satellite Applications), were: change, innovation and flexibility.  Change is all around. Change for manufacturers as demand shifts from Geostationary Orbit (GEO) to Non Geostationary Orbit (NGSO). Change in the structure of the industry. Lockheed is tracking 975 new space startups. Change in the manufacturing process. Satellites are getting bigger, and smaller.

The maritime market for the satellite communications industry continue to grow according to a recent report by NSR. NSR forecasts that the maritime atcom market  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.

To shed light on the strategy behind China's global satelllite marketing efforts, Satellite Markets and Research caught up with Mr. Fu Zhiheng, Executive VP of China-based satellite launch services provider Great Wall Industries.

How do find Great Wall’s position in the global launch market today?

Maxar Technologies has announced that Mike Gold, vice president of Regulatory and Policy at Maxar and General Counsel of its Radiant Solutions business, has been appointed to serve as a representative member of the NASA Advisory Council by Administrator Jim Bridenstine, where he will chair the newly formed Regulatory and Policy Committee.