Avanti Holds the Line on Africa Pricing

摘要

Satellite fleet operator Avanti Communications Group on Sept. 15 said it is resisting pricing pressure in Africa and maintaining average prices above $864,000 per year for a 36-megahertz transponder. London-based Avanti, which has two telecommunications satellites in orbit plus its recently purchased Artemis data-relay spacecraft, expects to round out its fleet in 2017 with the launch of its own Hylas 3 payload on a satellite built for the European Space agency and a fourth dedicated satellite, Hylas 4, recently contracted with Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Virginia. In an annual report to London's AIM stock market, Avanti said current customer take-up of its existing capacity and interest in the coming satellites suggest that "there is a realistic probability that existing capacities will be substantially full" sometime in 2017.