The Indian set-top box (STB) market has been increasing at a steady pace over the past few years. A strong surge of consumers moved to satellite platforms during 2011, representing 80% of the Indian market. Despite the large cable TV subscriber base in India, satellite TV growth will slow somewhat from the 10 million consumers that added services last year.

Broadband-IP&TV Asia 2012 has been hailed a success, with well over 1,000 visitors attending the event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week. With a focus on delivering growth in an evolving ecosystem and enhancing the customer experience for the connected consumer, Broadband-IP&TV Asia affirmed its position as one of  the most comprehensive events ever delivered in the region.

Mobile is both Facebook’s Achilles heel and future says Guillermo Escofet, Senior Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media.
Facebook has been at the forefront of the big growth in mobile data usage in recent years. It is indisputably one of the big stars of mobile; one that most operators have wanted to ally themselves with to drive the sale of data plans on their networks.

NSR’s Global Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Markets, 2nd Edition, finds the satellite manufacturing and launch markets facing both softening demand and increasing competition until 2016. However, in the second half of the next decade the manufacturing market will be back on an upward track, while the launch services market will see more years of stagnant growth.

Singapore has continued to grow both its mobile subscriber base (152% penetration by December 2011) as well as its value-added data services. The launch of 3G services has been particularly insightful. There was an obvious period of uncertainty surrounding the introduction of 3G. After launch in 2005 the take up rate was initially slow. Subsequently, however, there has been a strong upsurge in demand. No doubt this has been helped by the wider availability of more affordable, high feature handsets.

IBC is the leading forum for the electronic media and entertainment industry attracting over 50,000 professionals from more than 160 countries and combines an internationally renowned conference with a first class exhibition featuring the latest media technology innovation.

SES  announced today that its German HD+ platform reached more than 2.6 million households at the end of the first quarter of this year. More than half a million of them are paying the annual service fee. Nearly three million HD+ receivers have been sold since the launch of HD+ at the end of 2009.

For the first time, the CommunicAsia2012 Summit will see two visionary speakers and over 180 distinguished international speakers at the region’s largest gathering of ICT professionals and industry experts. Ms. Aliza Knox, Managing Director of Commerce for Google Asia Pacific and Ambassador David A. Gross, Partner at Wiley Rein LLP, will deliver Visionary Addresses on Wednesday, 20 June at Marina Bay Sands.

Optimism is high in Asia. With increased digital deployments, multichannel-TV will create more demand for satellite services across the region. But do the needs of Asian broadcasters differ from the rest of the world? Where are the opportunities? Are there potential roadblocks? Leading satellite industry experts will answer these questions and discuss industry issues at the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2012 to be held on June 18 on the eve of CommunicAsia in Singapore.

During Satellite 2012, the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) bestowed the Industry Innovators Awards on Eutelsat Communications and ViaSat Inc in recognition of the development and launch of their High Throughput Satellites (HTS), KA-SAT and ViaSat-1, respectively. High frequency reuse and multiple spot beam architecture have packed 10 times capacity on these Ka-Band satellites without any deployment cost penalties.