Spectrum and Slots: Hot Real Estate Markets With No Bursting Bubbles in Sight

摘要

Spectrum and orbital slots have always been key prizes in the satellite business — much desired and fought over. Battles within national regulatory bodies and at the International Telecommunications Union have pitted existing users against each other and against emerging technologies for prime real estate in the table of frequency allocations. Companies with operational satellites on orbit want to launch replacements with expanded capabilities, and new operators want to put up new satellites in highly congested prime real estate in the geosynchronous orbital arc.