NTNs and telcos: Is it fight or flight?
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Telcos should collaborate with NTNs to turn potential foes into friends – and take flight together.
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Pages: 35 Author: David Martin Publication Date: November 2024
STL Partners’ team explores the role of non-terrestrial network (NTN) players in the telco realm and suggests ways to turn them from potential foes into friends.
This report is a follow-up to STL Partners’ introductory report on the non-terrestrial network (NTN) market, ‘New satellite connectivity: Rising star or pie in the sky?’, published in November 2023.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- New NTN platforms enable multiple use cases based on ubiquitous coverage
- NTN take-off has been hampered by a lack of telco take-up
- Further inaction by telcos will only increase the threat from the big NTN players
- Partnering on NTN use cases now will lay a foundation for sustainable growth for telcos
Technologies and industry terms referenced include: 6G, Amazon, apple, AST SpaceMobile, BT, D2C, D2D, Emergency SOS texting, Eutelsat OneWeb, GEO, Globalstar, HAPS, Intelsat, LEO, Lynk Global, MBB, NTNs, Project Kuiper, Sateliot, satellite, Skylo, softbank, Starlink, Stratospheric Platforms, Telefonica