Challenge is an opportunity; this is true but the COVID 19 clearly came to the satellite industry in one of the worst timing.
Seems that the Satellite industry challenged by many aspects at the same time, terrestrial solutions that present low cost and high efficiency, the 5G that is going to change dramatically the way we use data in every part of our lives and the rapid changes in the ways we consume television moving from Linear to on demand.
All the above creates a lot of challenges and on top of these challenges we also need to deal with the COVID 19.
So where are the opportunities? If we look at the COVID 19 effect on our lives we will see that most of the world population tend to stay at home rather going out, which means working from home, watching more television, and consuming more internet.
Demand for BW is increasing dramatically every day while the terrestrial resources are very limited. Countries asked Netflix and other online platforms to reduce their BW to help overcome the shortage of BW.
Countries need to scaleup their Internet BW which is not actually available everywhere or required additional terrestrial infrastructure that will take time to implement. Satellite on the other hand can easily overcome these gaps both in coverage and time to market. Hybrid solutions both Fibers and Satellite is a great opportunity to meet the needs.
“I am confident that the Satellite industry will use those opportunities to convert the industry to be relevant again more than ever.”
