acquisition Broadband connectivity Hot Topics intelsat merger Networks Operators rural Rural Telecoms Satellites ses Telecoms Satellite heavyweights SES and Intelsat to combine in $3.1B merger Guest authors May 1, 2024 0 Two of the commercial satellite industry’s biggest players are joining forces to fortify their position against the onslaught of emerging low-Earth orbit broadband constellations led by SpaceX’s Starlink network. In a $3.1 billion deal anno…