WTA will be releasing its newest research report, The Year of the NGOSs later this month. The report will be free for WTA Members and available for purchase by others.
By the end of 2023, Starlink estimated that it had more than 2 million subscribers around the world.
In 2024 and into 2025, its deployments and customer acquisition will go on at a record pace, including growing penetration of business markets and spacecraft providing basic space-to-ground service to conventional mobile phones.
The OneWeb service roll-out will accelerate. SES mPower will start service, move O3B customers to the new network and gain new customers.
And Amazon Kuiper will launch satellites and service.
In this report, WTA asks teleport, satellite and technology executives the critical questions:
How will the GEO operators — the mainstay of teleport connectivity — respond?
How will it affect their teleport partners?
How will the teleport business model continue to adapt to a market of verticalized connectivity?
What technology innovations may preserve and extend their competitive advantage?