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World Satellite Machine-to-Machine Communications Market provides market drivers and restraints, global revenue and subscriber forecasts, and current market share data for the world satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market. This research service is directed at M2M network providers, equipment manufacturers, those involved in satellite operations, and, more broadly, any satellite communications industry professional that works in the tracking of the M2M industry. In this research, expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: satellite, M2M hardware, fixed satellite services, and mobile satellite services.
 
Developments in the worldwide wireless, wireline, and satellite networks over the last twenty years have set the stage for M2M applications and equipment to utilize these existing networks. M2M communications have diverse use, such as logistical tracking, telemetry, remote monitoring, geo fencing, security, and scientific monitoring. This will enable industries ranging from agriculture to retail to make use of M2M communications in innovative ways to benefit their businesses, thereby driving the satellite M2M industry over the next five to seven years. The world satellite M2M communications market is currently experiencing exponential growth, with companies continually seeking ways to raise productivity while reducing costs. M2M hardware and equipment have reduced in size as well as in cost in the last five years - a trend that is likely to continue. Smaller hardware paves the way for greater potential in the M2M industry to foray into new areas, especially in the in mobile or communication-on-the-move applications. Reduced equipment costs are further stepping-up opportunities by helping in the monitoring and tracking of more assets.
 
Globally, there are over one billion personal computers, four billion wireless phones, and one billion wireline phones in service. Yet, there are only about a hundred million dedicated M2M devices in service. In the long term, these numbers should be reversed - perhaps ten billion phones and computers in service with twenty five to fifty billion M2M devices. The majority of these devices are of the M2M sub-category that needs zero human interaction for continuous communication service.
 
The escalating costs of bandwidth and equipment will restrain market growth in the short-to-medium term. Satellite hardware and airtime are substantially more expensive than their terrestrial counterparts. The average revenue per user (ARPU) among cellular operators is in the range of $6 to $7 per month, whereas satellite companies are in the $24 per month range. Additionally, hardware prices for satellite M2M equipment range from $74 to $3,200.
 
As hardware sales grow, economies of scale will develop and contribute to reductions in unit prices for M2M equipment. As prices fall for M2M equipment, more green-field opportunities will appear in the vertical markets where hardware prices had held back M2M adoption. Tracking of mobile assets and transportation monitoring are becoming much more cost effective for end users due to the reduction in the cost of m2m equipment.