Author: Robert Bell

Is There Enough IOT Business to Go Around?
Forecasts on future Internet of Things (IOT) business opportunities are enough to give a salesperson high blood pressure. IDC forecasts a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13.6 percent from 2017...
Connectivity
Is the Aero Market Ready for Takeoff?
Back in the Jurassic Age, the big U.S. television networks distributed programs to affiliate stations over AT&T Long Lines. Then PBS and HBO showed that satellite offered a better deal,...
Connectivity
Photo: SSPI, Newtec
Is the Data Worth More Than the Link?
In the good old days — before today’s bandwidth bonanza began pushing transponder capacity prices ever lower — the point of most satellite communications was the communications. It was about...
Finance
Amsterdam, Netherlands, see by the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite in March 2017. Photo: ESA