Merger and acquisition activity in the defence and security domains was valued at USD82 billion during 2018, representing a 36% increase of the 2017 USD60 billion total according to Jane's by IHS Markit. This is the second consecutive record year of the present decade.

The total was pushed to a new high by a series of market-changing transactions during 2018, as the trend for transformational deals continued. The number of ‘transformation deals’ (those valued at USD500 million or more) more than doubled year on year during 2018 to 13, compared to 6 in 2017.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released High Performance: Service Continuity, a new research report that explores the hidden threats to service continuity and how teleport operators can best address them. The report is based on research coming from anonymized data collected since 2015 through WTA’s Teleport Certification program, and is the first of a series focusing on under-appreciated issues that have an impact on quality of service. 

NSR’s Flat Panel Satellite Antennas, 4th Edition(FPA4) report, released today, forecasts cumulative FPA equipment sales to reach approx. $11 billion by 2028.

The global Satellite M2M Communications market is projected to exceed US$1.9 billion by 2022 in service revenues, driven by reducing cost and complexity of M2M implementations and the resulting rise in adoption; and expanding remote asset tracking, monitoring and control applications according to a new report by Research and Markets.

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) subscription video on demand (SVoD) revenues will reach US$ 2.13 billion by 2024; or $1.51 billion more than the 2018 total. SVOD revenues will more than triple between 2018 and 2024, according to the latest edition of the Middle East and North Africa OTT TV and Video Forecasts report by Digital TV Research.

A new report from Arab Advisors Group overviews the IPTV services in the Arab world by December 2018. Arab Advisors Group’s analysis revealed that GCC countries had the largest number of IPTV providers in the region. 

A new OTT report from Parks Associates predicts OTT services will accelerate their global expansion over the next five years, with more than 310 million connected households having at least one OTT service by 2024. OTT Video Services: Disruptive Globalization estimates approximately 200 million households had at least one OTT service at home at the end of 2018.

A new research by the Arab Advisors Group’s has revealed that social media platforms are one of the most effective marketing tools due to their vast spread among all age groups all over the world.

The research analyzes and compares the social media presence of 34 Free-to-Air satellite channels in the Arab World and sheds the light on the development of social media platforms into marketing tools and OTT applications.

Rethink Technology Research , a research and analyst firm that focuses on the IoT, video, and wireless markets, says its Rethink TV service has forecast not one, but two major price corrections in Broadcast TV advertising coming over the next five years. This is according to its new Report “The Year of TV living Dangerously - How and when traditional TV advertising value collapses,” released today.

NSR’s VSAT and Broadband Satellite Markets 17thEdition report, released today, forecasts cumulative revenues of $159 billion in the next decade, with 13.4% annual growth in the installed base of consumer sites alone.  Enterprise VSAT is also a solid contributor with $12.3 billion in capacity revenues by 2027, driven by key verticals worldwide.