waves apart from causing large-scale destruction, these disrupt and conventional land-based
cellular networks. Growing concerns regarding these inadvertent incidences, and the necessity
of preparedness in case of emergencies is expected fuel growth of the satellite telephones
market. Military forces, public safety agencies and disaster management teams are expected to
be the primary consumers, owing to the requirement to coordinate their activities in case of
such emergencies.
Technical limitations such as dead spots in the network and low voice quality are expected to
be the major factor hampering the satellite telephones market growth
Satphones function on an entirely different network infrastructure through radio wave
propagation. Owing to these connectivity is distorted inside the buildings or any structure where
the view of the horizon is obstructed. Functioning of these products requires retracted
antennas, owing to which user cannot reliably receive phone calls, when the phone is in pocket
or bag packs. Moreover, calls to these phones from public networks can be very costly. Dead
spots in the network, relatively lower voice quality in comparison to cellular networks, and
latency are few other technological drawbacks that may negatively impact the global demands.
Growing defense expenditure will provide solid growth platform to the satellite telephones
market over the forecast period
U.S. is expected to remain the most potential region for growth prospects, owing to it being the
largest spender on defense. Moreover, commercial applications in the region have witnessed
significant increase owing to increasing tourism to foreign remote locations in South America,
Asia and Africa. Choices of prepaid and postpaid options, no roaming costs and internet enabled
devices will propel the commercial consumer inclination towards these satphones market
Media, tourism and other forms of venturing business operations have witnessed significant
growth in the Asia Pacific and Middle East over the past few years. Requirement to cope up with
the lack of efficient conventional network coverage, expensive roaming rates, and severe
government restrictions and scrutiny imposed on all forms of communication in certain
countries in MEA and Asia Pacific are expected to provide substantial growth prospects for
players in the global satellite telephones market. However, considering the large volume of
expenditure in the sector are expected to position the defense and maritime industry as the
largest end user segment over the forecast period.