Supporting policy public practices - Market access
From INVESaTWIKI
Market access
European satellite operators find significant barriers to market access when deploying their networks
and services in specific countries. Such barriers are mainly present in countries outside Europe and
oblige very often operators to undertake cumbersome negotiation procedure, on a case by case, with
every national Administration involved.
Due to the inherent trans-national nature of satellite services, this represents a main hurdle to a cost
effective service deployment and basically translates either in an additional financial burden for the
end user or even in a service access preclusion tout-court.
This kind of occurrence often takes place in countries where large shares of the population already
have limited access to communications with negative impacts both on the business outlook for the
operator and on the development perspectives for the concerned country.
ESOA believes this is a main issue facing the development of satellite services to be taken into
account into the European Space Policy. [1]
References
[1] European Satellite Operators Association
"ESOA General Comments on the European Space Policy and Research and Development Policy in the field of Satellite Telecommunications".
