Media subsidiaries fund connectivity investments as streaming providers intensify competition
Some connectivity companies are selling media businesses or using free cash flow to invest in service rollouts. Others plan to ...
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Restructured satellite players emerging into a hotbed of newspace growth
In stark contrast to frontier space, many traditional satellite companies have been under distress from a pandemic that has hit ...
SPAC boom shines path for capital-intensive satellite companies
The resurgent special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) market has found its second pure-play space company in Momentus, a US-based startup facilitating ‘last-mile’ ...
Assessing the C-band positives for a pressured connectivity supply chain | Viewpoint
C-band progress in the US will offer some relief for the connectivity supply chain, which has been battling long-running strains that ...
Speedcast doubles down on government business with US$135m Globecomm acquisition
Speedcast International is further diversifying its satcoms business with the US$135m acquisition of US-based Globecomm Systems, after making multiple buys in recent ...
Discovery Communications gets new loan, boosts revolver to fund Scripps buy
US media company Discovery Communications has secured a new loan and is boosting its revolver so that it can fund ...
Discovery Communications buys Scripps Networks in US$14.6bn deal to take on OTT
As media and entertainment moves to a direct-to-consumer focus, US-based Discovery Communications has acquired Scripps Networks Interactive in a cash-and-stock transaction worth ...
SoftBank in talks with other potential partners as Intelsat-OneWeb deal crumbles
Japan’s SoftBank is already in talks with others about a partnership, a source claiming knowledge said, following the almost-certain collapse of its US$14bn debt-exchange ...
Intelsat enhances debt-exchange offer and extends deadline to 31 May
Facing bondholder unease that could wreck a planned merger with LEO broadband startup OneWeb, satellite operator Intelsat has sweetened its Softbank-engineered debt-exchange offer, ...
For third time, Intelsat extends deadline for debt-exchange offer
For the third time since late April, Intelsat has extended its proposed debt-exchange deadline, to 18 May, as the satellite ...
