Speedcast's Starlink Partnership a Double-Edged Sword: Maritime Connectivity Expert
Partnering quickly with SpaceX's Starlink to jointly provide maritime connectivity, Speedcast may have inadvertently shot itself in the foot as it helped normalize an increasing shift to Starlink, Satmarin Exoflux's Michael de Coninck wrote Tuesday on LinkedIn. An industry-wide adoption…
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of Starlink's maritime service has eroded Speedcast's early mover advantage. "The very market Speedcast sought to dominate quickly became saturated, leaving the company to compete on razor-thin margins against providers offering similar Starlink-based solutions," he said. And in its embrace of Starlink, Speedcast might have accelerated a migration from its higher-margin very small aperture terminal solutions to Starlink's lower-margin offering, he added.