Viasat to acquire Inmarsat

by Marc Selinger

US-based satellite communications provider Viasat has agreed to purchase UK-based mobile satcom business Inmarsat, creating an entity that can provide more scale and scope to commercial and government customers, according to the two companies.

“We'll have instant global coverage and high-density, ultra high-capacity regional coverage to serve fixed- and mobile-geographic hot spots with multiple layers of redundancy and resilience everywhere,” Viasat executive chairman and co-founder Mark Dankberg told analysts on 8 November.

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US-based satellite communications provider Viasat has agreed to purchase UK-based mobile satcom busi...

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