Deal Will Strengthen Competition, Viasat, Inmarsat Say

Viasat and Inmarsat "remain committed to continuing engagement with the European Commission and are confident the proposed combination will strengthen competition in the growing satellite communications market and enable the combined group to offer innovative new services to its customers in Europe and around the world," the companies emailed us Monday. The European Commission is launching an antitrust investigation of Viasat's proposed Inmarsat takeover (see 2302130038).