th European Space Conference on Wednesday, Gerry Collins, network and services policy expert for
ESOA stated that the satellite industry needs to change its way of doing business in order to make the most of new 5G opportunities. “The satellite industry has a terrible habit of over-complicating things,” he said, and the discussion “has to move beyond Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) vs. Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) vs. Geostationary Orbit (GEO).”
“We need to be able to provide services in different verticals,” Collins said. “If we are able to do that, it will increase the value of the industry. But, the really key thing is that we are working on standards. We haven’t had an ability to integrate our technologies into bigger solutions, but now we need too.