{"id":426073,"date":"2022-10-12T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/novyny-elektronnyh-komponentiv\/antimonopolnii-organ-velikoyi-britaniyi-styrbovanii-zaproponovanim-viasat-pridbanniam-inmarsat\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:35:04","slug":"antimonopolnii-organ-velikoyi-britaniyi-styrbovanii-zaproponovanim-viasat-pridbanniam-inmarsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/novyny-elektronnyh-komponentiv\/antimonopolnii-organ-velikoyi-britaniyi-styrbovanii-zaproponovanim-viasat-pridbanniam-inmarsat\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#039;s antitrust authority is concerned about Viasat&#039;s proposed acquisition of Inmarsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/01d4f996faf1fcc75eac28d9e3149d15.jpg\" \u0410\u043d\u0442\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d \u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0457 \u0411\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0456\u0457 \u0441\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u043c viasat \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0434\u0431\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f\u043c inmarsat \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p >The concern raised in the original objection relates to the provision of in-flight connectivity (IFC) for airline passengers. In particular, the deal could result in airlines facing higher prices and lower quality in-flight Wi-Fi, leading to <!--more-->elimination of a key competitor from the market. It defines IFC as a &#039;must-have&#039; service for airlines and customers who want to stay connected during flights.<\/p>\n<p>Another point raised by the authorities in their Stage 1 response is first-mover advantage. They highlighted that it is difficult for airlines to change supplier once they have installed a certain IFC system. They expressed concern that the new Viasat could effectively lock in a large portion of the customer base before OneWeb and SpaceX become more reliable options.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Panasonic, Intelsat and Anuvu are among the existing competitors, but CFA:<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/business\/uks-competition-authority-concerned-by-proposed-viasat-acquisition-of-inmarsat-2022-10\/\">electronicsweekly.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concern raised in the original objection relates to the provision of in-flight connectivity (IFC) for airline passengers. In particular, the deal could result in airlines facing higher prices and lower quality in-flight Wi-Fi, leading to<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":426074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-novyny-elektronnyh-komponentiv"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/01d4f996faf1fcc75eac28d9e3149d15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uatronica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}