FSS Market Seeing New Entrants, Big Changes in Competition, Euroconsult Says
The fixed satellite service market has been relatively stable at around $11.3 billion annually over the past five years, but the top four operators' market share eroded to 60 percent, with new companies like YahSat, Thaicom and Insat joining the…
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top 10, Euroconsult said Tuesday. It said 12 new operators started over the past five years, including in 2017 BRI, BulgariaSat and Telebras, meaning 46 revenue-generating operators as of year's end. Euroconsult said those new players, along with lower growth demand, cut margins, fill rates and revenue per transponder from five years ago. It said major issues in coming years will be the emergence of nonlinear video services, managed services and connectivity everywhere, plus non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) constellation and terrestrial network expansion. It said competition will increase, with 11 players expected to enter the FSS geostationary market by the early 2020s. Euroconsult said operators likely will focus on high-throughput satellite payloads, systems with more coverage, power and bandwidth allocation flexibility, quicker development of NGSO constellations and a transition from bandwidth suppliers to managed service providers.