Your article “Intelsat Accused of Engaging in Anti-competitive Practices” devoted most of its space to the comments filed at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by unsuccessful bidders for the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP), which was recently awarded to a team of 17 companies led by Intelsat General. In doing so, Space News allowed the ash cloud spewed by a few to obscure the real tectonic change that’s reshaping the landscape for government satellite services procurement. This change, which is threatening to some, takes a new approach to procuring bandwidth from commercial satellite companies that will create efficiencies for the end users and save taxpayer dollars.
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