Satellite Data Pricing Not Stabilizing Anytime Soon, Summit Ridge Group Says

Hughes' unveiling of its new Jupiter service with dramatically lower pricing per unit of data capacity should end any speculation that satellite pricing declines have stabilized, Summit Ridge Group said in a blog post Thursday. Recapping last week's Satellite 2017, Summit said the cost per unit of throughput in satellite manufacturing is falling, with the benchmark for new systems now being $1 million per Gbps of throughput. It also said what had been small indications that satellite investments in customer applications and software so as to stimulate demand for high-throughput satellite capacity have "spilled out into the open" with such announcements as Intelsat's investment in Kymeta.