The outlook for global satellite industry revenue is...

The outlook for global satellite industry revenue is expected to improve this year, Credit Suisse analysts said in a report (http://bit.ly/1iy6vml). Last year, the industry was affected by Department of Defense spending cuts, launch delays and Africa and Middle East oversupply, the analysts said. The analysts “expect U.S. budgetary pressure to ease over 2014 while we continue to expect overall global capacity demand to exceed global supply from 2015,” they said. Direct-to-home capacity freed up by higher compression techniques and a reduction in time-shifted standard definition (SD) broadcasting “will be redeployed to boosting SD picture quality and increasing HD/4K channels as the cost of 4K TV sets falls.” High throughput constellations from Inmarsat, O3b Networks, Intelsat and Iridium will drive accelerating data demand, they said. “Just as in the terrestrial (wireline and mobile) world of developed markets, we expect demand for high-speed data to accelerate in the global satellite industry.”