Land-Mobile Satellite Industry Needs Better Antenna Tech for Disruption, NSR Says

Established players in the land mobile via satellite market likely won't get major competition from low earth orbit (LEO) high-throughput satellite (HTS) broadband constellations until cheaper, smaller terminals are available, perhaps with electronically steered automatic pointing, said Northern Sky Research analyst Claude Rousseau in an NSR blog post Friday. That LEO HTS competition, however, will force those established players into more alliances and to widen their offerings, NSR said, citing Globalstar and Inmarsat announcing plans to cross-sell their products and services and OneWeb planning to combine with Intelsat.