Inmarsat CEO Says Starlink Rivalry Shows Competition in Aviation

Concerns over a lack of in-flight broadband competition raised by the UK’s antitrust watchdog are unfounded, Inmarsat Group Holdings Ltd CEO Rajeev Suri says in interview.

• NOTE: In October, the Competition and Markets Authority started an in-depth phase two probe of Inmarsat’s planned merger with Viasat Inc.
• “We of course disagree with the conclusions of phase one, because there is a lot of competition, including in aviation.”
• “We are competing with Starlink every day,” Suri says, referring to Elon Musk’s low-earth orbit satellite network owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
• “New entrants are already piling pressure” on incumbent companies, ...