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Satellite ecosystem

Here are some random companies in the satellite world:

  • WildBlue. Funded by Liberty Media this is a $50/month internet access over satellite
  • Telesat. This is the combination of Telesat and Loral Skynet, this was a CAD $3.25B buyout controlled by the Canada Public Sector Pension Investment Board. It is the fourth largest fixed satellite services provider (FSS). They have 12 satellites. They have two additional satellites fully contracted to Canada Bell ExpressVu for direct-to-home satellite services.
  • Inmarsat. They are mainly maritime company that has a lot of satellite offerings that are low to medium bandwidth
  • Intelsat. This is a rollup of the original intelsat and pan am sat. They also acquired Comsat General in 2004 to do government integration. You can also see their bird position.
  • Hughes. These guys are worth about $800M and are the only pure play reseller that is public. They primarily focus on the consumer services
  • Dish has just split their satellite from their consumer marketing group. They acquired Sling Media for $380M in October 2007 (wow!) so they will end up as Dish Network and then the infrastructure business is EchoStar Communications.

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Posted by Rich on January 17, 2008 6:49 PM |

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