SpeedCast International Limited (ASX: SDA), a global satellite communications and network service provider, today announced Full Year 2015 results, with revenues of US$167.6 million. 

Highlights of the report include:

The Boeing board of directors has elected Leanne Caret president and chief executive officer of the company's Defense, Space & Security business effective March 1. She will succeed Chris Chadwick, who has announced his retirement from the company.

Research and Markets forecast the IoT Platforms market growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33% over the 2015-2021 forecast period, with annual revenue reaching US$ 1.6 billion in 2021.

The worldwide market for IoT platforms reached $298M in 2015 with an estimated compound annual growth rate of 33% for the period to 2021, making IoT platforms one of the fastest growing segments, even within the IoT market and forecast to surpass the $1 billion mark by 2019.

By end of March 2015, mobile operators in nineteen Arab countries had 414 million cellular lines, up from 413.6 million at yearend 2014, a mere growth of 0.1%. A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyzes and ranks cellular operators in the Arab World. The three cellular operators in Egypt; Vodafone, Mobinil and Etisalat were the largest Arab cellular operators in terms of subscriptions by end of March 2015.

Released today, NSR’s Satellite Capacity Pricing Index- Q1 2016, leads the industry with a first of its kind, in depth analysis of real-world satellite operator pricing.  The index incorporates actual satellite operator inputs across traditional FSS C-band & Ku-band capacity, and GEO-HTS, including rate-card pricing by region, application, and frequency band.

A new report from Juniper Research has valued operator in-flight roaming revenues at nearly US$ 3 billion by 2020, doubling the value estimated for this year. This figure includes mobile voice, data and SMS.

However, in terms of total operator billed mobile roaming revenues, in-flight roaming will only represent around 5% of revenues globally by 2020.

Targeting Data Roamers

Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I)  today announced preliminary financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2015. Intelsat reported preliminary total revenue of $571.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2015.

meanswhat announced the appointment of Wilhelmus van Kuijeren as Chief Executive Officer of meanswhat SA (Pty) Ltd and the opening of a branch office in Johannesburg, South Africa.  van Kuijeren will be heading the South African office in line with the  further expansion of the company’s network to cover Africa.  

“We are extremely pleased that Wilhelmus van Kuijeren will be joining us as Chief Executive Officer of meanswhat SA (Pty) Ltd. He is well established and honored in the market for over 20 years. ” said Axel Daiber, Managing Director of meanswhat SARL-Luxembourg.

The Board of Directors of Eutelsat Communications (ISIN: FR0010221234 – NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) reviewed the financial results for the half-year ended 31 December 2015.  First Half revenues were €774 million, up 1.5% on a like-for-like basis.1 Net attributable income was  €188 million, up 17.0%; net margin of 24%.

Other highlights of the results include: 

Launched today, the Mobile World Congress edition of the Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) Mobility Report reveals the impact of different levels of network performance on smartphone users and their perceptions of mobile operators and digital content providers.

Some of the highlights of the findings include:

• When working under time pressure, time-to-content delays followed by an additional pause in video playout lead to a jump in mobile users' stress levels