EMEA Markets - Latest Developments
The May 2020 issue of the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine is now available. Featuring:
Vertical Markets for Satellite IoT by Hub Urlings, Herbie Rijndorp and Marco Franken
Business Agility Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hari Abburi
Satellite Companies' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Satellite Ecosystem and COVID-19 by Martin Jarrold
Better Satellite World Series: In Search of the World's Missing Girls
PLUS Mergers and Acquisitions, Executive Moves, Market Briefs, Vital Statistics, Satellite Markets 20 Stock Index and many more. Click here to read or download the file
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) today reported its operating results for its third fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2020 and provided an update on business developments and the UHP and Gilat acquistions.
Fiscal 2020 Third Quarter Highlights
The Connecting Africa series of events team has been closely monitoring global developments, alongside those in East and West Africa. As the situation and impact of the coronavirus continues to develop, they have decided to move East Africa Com to a fully virtual event for 2020 on 14 - 15 September and West Africa Com to a fully virtual event for 2020 (30 September - 1 October), uniting the region’s Francophone and Anglophone TMT markets online.
East Africa Com Virtual
Informa Markets today announced that ConnecTechAsia - Asia’s leading Infocomm Media and Technology event organised in partnership with Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), will be held on a virtual platform during the same dates, 29 September to 1 October 2020. This shift to a virtual event is in response to the dynamic situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, where travel and physical restrictions are still in effect globally.
UHP Networks, the Canadian manufacturer of advanced VSAT networking equipment and systems posted record results at the end of its fiscal year ending April 30, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a major economic downturn unfolding in the last quarter, the company recorded highest revenue and profitability in its history.
Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) today announced the sale of its Cobham RAD radiation testing business in Colorado Springs, CO to Radiation Test Solutions (RTS), a specialist in the design, analysis, and testing of semiconductor devices and materials for satellite, aircraft, and ground applications.
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I opened my previous column for this publication one month ago with the following statement: “In starting to draft this column it was impossible not to be affected by the news that the official global figure for Covid-19 fatalities was approaching 200,000. The zoonotic – interspecies – jump to humans and subsequent pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has badly impacted many of the world’s most advanced and richest countries, but the epidemiology tells us that the worst of the impact, on the less-developed world, is still to come.”
As part of its ongoing Simplify & Amplify transformation program, satellite operator SES announced that it plans to restructure its operations worldwide, including the consolidation of part of its European regional operations into the company’s global headquarters in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

