Marketing Satellite broadcasts and Internet via satellite in the Middle East Region.

About this Essay: Middle East Satellite Communications and Internet via Satellite is the latest in a series of market research reports which cover the latest trends in satellite communications and associated technologies. It focuses on the two main areas I believe are of interest to the industry, satellite broadcasting and Internet via satellite. I have chosen to cover the Middle East because it is of an area of major success for DTH broadcasting, a major …

…the modernisers, with public opion on their side, have lost, for the time being, the upper hand to conservatives. Consequentially, this very large country remains a backwater for satellite communications. Policy making is just too capricious to provide a stable investment climate. The report identifies Libya, no longer quite a pariah state, as a potentially significant opportunity for satellite communications. Like many republics in the region, it is moving towards a dynastic form of rule.