California-based Viasat and Paris-based Eutelsat were once extremely friendly, and still have good – formal – relations with one another although not quite as strong as a couple of years ago.

The pair are bound together in a joint-venture over the use of spectrum on Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat, and while initially the joint venture was intended to see the two operators cooperate on a range of consumer broadband-by-satellite services, they will now compete against one another in broadband.

Source: Viasat planning big for Europe