MSS Operators Can Avoid IoT Price War, NSR Says
By offering compelling IoT and machine-to-machine services, mobile satellite service operators can avoid an IoT connectivity price war with 5G, smallsat constellations and low-power wide area networks, Northern Sky Research's Alan Crisp blogged. Customers might at first be attracted to…
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lower prices of competitors, but those options have drawbacks and those prices often are for very specific uses, he said. High-value applications in areas like maritime and energy will want full-featured M2M constellations, especially since their uses generally can't be replicated on other smallsat constellations, and there likely will be somewhat distinct market segments between MSS and smallsats, the analyst said Monday.