Yes and no. They also dragged their feet on high-throughput Ka-band spacecraft with smaller spot beams. ViaSat built and launched ViaSat-1 while SES was still o

Yes and no. They also dragged their feet on high-throughput Ka-band spacecraft with smaller spot beams. ViaSat built and launched ViaSat-1 while SES was still ordering satellites designed around analog video broadcast. In the terrestrial real-estate analogy, this seems to me like missing out on potential returns because you built the wrong type of building on the land you own.