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 …showed first 75 words of 4568 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4568 total…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.