The teleport business is changing rapidly. To a get an insight on the dynamics of this vital segment of the satellite industry, Satellite Executive Briefing spoke with Vladimir Rangelov, Senior Manager, Broadcast Services at VIVACOM--Bulgaria’s largest media company that operates a teleport, among its other businesses. Excerpts of the interview:
The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released Inside the Top Operators, an annual report on growth, pricing changes, the state of competition and how leading teleport operators are responding to the trends.
An Inter-regional Workshop focused on preparations for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) opened in Geneva today.
This preparatory workshop for WRC-19, the third such meeting, will meet 4-6 September 2019. Discussions will centre on the agenda of the World Radiocommunication Conference as well as regional priorities and inputs that have been prepared both for WRC-19, which will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 28 October until 22 November 2019, and the Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-19) that will precede it at the same venue, 21-25 October.
According to Euroconsult's newly released research report, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, the number of connected commercial aircraft will increase from 8,200 at the end of 2018 to more than 20,500 over the next ten years.
Astrocast, a Switzerland-based Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite network, has secured US$ 9.2 (€8.3M) Series A round of funding to accelerate production of IoT modules, to begin commercial phase and deployment of the its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) IoT network.
To date, Astrocast has raised CHF 16.6M in total funding. Founded in 2014 by the developers of SwissCube, one of the longest lasting, operational nanosatellites in space and led by Fabien Jordan, CEO, and José Achache, to develop an advanced nanosatellite network for the Internet of things (IoT).
Outsourcing the manufacturing of your products is a very important decision for your company that can have a major impact on your bottom line.
It will come as no surprise to anyone in this industry who is paying attention to what has been happening over the last few years, to hear me say that the industry is in a state of flux. This is hardly news, but the pace appears to be accelerating and things that have been talked about for the last several years, are either reality or now very close to be becoming so.
The uncomfortable co-existence among science, technology and religion is a few centuries old. For a long while the three disciplines tried to stay in their own lane and tried to avoid swerving into the others’ lane. But a collision was inevitable. The crash has given us a toxic political and social climate at times, and made us mistrust each of the three disciplines.
Flat Panel Satellite Antennas (FPSAs) are one of the most anticipated technical innovations in the satellite industry for its potential to provide connectivity in mobility applications for aeronautical, terrestrial and maritime applications. However, we have yet to see FPSA take off.
