SatellitePro ME by Dr Tim Farrar 10/24/2023
Geo-satellites will be resilient, but Starlink is winning the broadband connectivity battle and making 100,000 dishes per month, according to Dr Tim Farrar, president of consulting and research firm, TMF Associates.
Starlink claimed more than 2 million subscribers in September. If Farrar’s estimate of the 100,000 dish number is correct then Starlink is likely to be close to 2.5 million active users by the end of the year.
Speaking further at the 2023 Milsat Symposium (as part of the Silicon Valley Space Week), Farrar compared and contrasted the position of the well-established geostationary satellite operates such as SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Viasat and Telesat.
He talked about their role in supplying broadband to commercial clients, and the cost implications of these tasks. Giving the example of receive/transmit antennas, he said : “A few years ago Viasat was touting 15 Petabytes [of capacity] per month. Now, SpaceX/Starlink is carrying 500PB per month. Starlink already has the majority of all satellite data traffic in the world today.”
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