Telecom Lead India:
In the next ten years, the mobile satellite market is likely to reach revenues
of $10.3 billion from 2.3 million in-service units.
Four times more VSATs are expected to be put in service
generating new demand for over 200 additional transponders.
Mobile satellite market growth will be led by data units on
the equipment side and broadband VSATs on the service side. A number of
bandwidth-hungry users in the maritime and aeronautical segments, along with
smaller and cheaper units in the land-mobile segment, will drive growth.
The recent slowdown in some parts of the maritime market did
not impact service revenues as much as expected, and NSR sees the maritime
sector as a key growth area for both MSS and FSS operators alike, said Claude
Rousseau, NSR Senior Analyst and author of the study
Recent contracts clear the sky for more broadband access on commercial
airplanes that will drive double-digit satellite mobility growth. The launch of
high-throughput satellites (HTS) in the mobility market will challenge
traditional MSS players with huge supplies of capacity at a lower cost per bit.
The land-mobile narrowband services segment remains the
time-honored MSS market leader, with a solid base of subscribers that will
provide one-third of overall MSS revenues over the next ten years.
Despite recent results that were less than stellar in the
satellite handheld business, the mobile satellite market will reach milestones
such as 1 million in-service units for the land-mobile sector and impressive
growth for maritime and aeronautical service over the next ten years.
