Recent Reports
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11 December, 2018
Inflight connectivity investors are gearing up for another unsettled year as 2019 approaches amid a bitter legal fight and major financings. UK-based Inmarsat and Viasat of the US are standing their ground after a London court…  |
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10 December, 2018
The recent arrest of Huawei’s financial chief Meng Wanzhou, who allegedly violated US’ sanctions against Iran, could stunt China’s ambitions of being a global 5G leader. Meng, who is also the daughter of Huawei’s founder... |
 10 December, 2018
Connectivity Business compiles the latest M&A and financing deals by country, company, mandate, and mandated. |
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6 December, 2018
The shift from satellite TV to cloud services and IoT is opening up new opportunities for connectivity investors, as cableco revenues struggle to keep up with rapid subscriptions losses. Just in the past quarter, more than one million US audiences...  |
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6 December, 2018
The satellite ground segment is continuing to see consolidation as it increasingly focuses on connectivity solutions against a backdrop of middling growth in a sector experiencing intense transformation. The explosion in consumer broadband is expected stimulate growth in the…  |
 6 December, 2018
UK-based satellite broadband operator Avanti Communications is looking forward to a new beginning next year, after a far-reaching restructuring that included giving more equity to bondholders. CFO Nigel Fox speaks to SatelliteFinance about how it is positioned for growth as competition for satellite broadband rises in emerging...  |
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6 December, 2018
5G promises to provide very high bandwidths, and it is also well understood that MNOs will need to use this technology to address new revenue streams given that revenue from the consumer mobile broadband business is likely to be flat or declining in the coming years. The low-latency and high-reliability use cases that...  |
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5 December, 2018
Investors are lining up to back more European FTTH initiatives next year, after three investment firms acquired nearly half of Altice Europe’s French fibre optic unit SFR FTTH for €1.8bn (US$2bn). The deal for a 49.99% stake, which values the business unit at €3.6bn (US$4.1bn) in total, comes as...  |
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3 December, 2018
Recently passed data protection law GDPR will slow down European telcos’ adoption of 5G even further behind their North American and Asian competitors, a report published on the National Bureau of Economic Research warns. The report finds that...  |
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29 November, 2018
The satellite data explosion is creating new challenges for the connectivity industry, prompting the creation of a cloud computing business that aims to simplify the flow of data collection to downstream analytics. The new service from Amazon and Lockheed Martin was announced as big data solutions are expected to see sustained growth over the next decade, largely driven by…  |