The annual Connectivity Business Investment Conference begins Wednesday June 26, 2019 at 55 Hudson Yards in New York.

The prestigious forum will explore the critical strategic and financial issues impacting private and public equity and debt capital investments across the rapidly evolving broadband infrastructure industry.

The programme will consider a number of communications infrastructure segments including 5G technologies / spectrum, fibre networks, macro cell towers, data centres, small cell networks, IoT applications, LEO constellations, smallsats, and high-altitude platforms, and other communications infrastructure.

This session from the Connectivity Business Investment Conference in Chicago looked at venture capital, private equity, economic development funding, and corporate venture capital investments in the connectivity industry.  The discussion explored the current appetite for funding IoT applications, 5G technologies, small sats, high-altitude platforms, LEO constellations, and other communications infrastructure.  The discussion included a review of the key terms that may be associated with private debt placements and considered the outlook for changes in the overall private capital environment.

CHICAGO / NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO / LONDON:  Finance Information Group today announced that TelecomFinance will now operate as Connectivity Business. 

Hong Kong’s Asia Broadcast Satellite has refinanced its export credit agency-backed debt to bring the satellite operator’s blended cost of capital down to the high single digits.The recapitalisation, thought to involve senior positions for Goldman Sachs, HSBC and subordinated debt from a Singaporean firm, also gives the private equity-owned company more flexibility to start funding ABS-8, which could be its third all-electric satellite.

SatelliteFinance today announced Mr. Mark Dankberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at ViaSat, Inc., one of America’s fastest growing technology companies, will be the keynote speaker at the SatelliteFinance Conference.

The 200th issue features Q&As with SES CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh and David Bruner, vice president of global communications services at Panasonic Avionics, as well as a contributed piece from Harbottle & Lewis partner Tony Ballard.