Company: VSAT
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-016993
Chunk: 104

Company: VIASAT INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-10
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 104
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ationary earth orbit (GEO), medium earth orbit (MEO) and low earth orbit (LEO).

The following are the primary business lines in our communication services segment:

•Aviation, which includes industry-leading IFC services and wireless in-flight entertainment (W-IFE) services for commercial aircraft and business jets, narrowband safety services, and complementary aviation software services (such as cockpit, data safety and surveillance). As of December 31, 2024, we had our IFC systems installed and in service on approximately 4,030 commercial aircraft (of which approximately 80 were inactive at quarter end, mostly due to standard aircraft maintenance) and approximately 2,000 business jets with Ka-band communication services. We anticipate that approximately 1,570 additional commercial aircraft will be put into service with our IFC systems under existing customer agreements with commercial airlines. However, due to the nature of commercial airline contracts and other factors such as OEM delays, there can be no assurance that anticipated IFC services will be activated on all such additional commercial aircraft.

•Government satcom, which includes various broadband and narrowband products and services for both fixed and mobile communications that provide military and government users with secure, high-speed, real-time broadband and multimedia connectivity in key regions of the world, as well as tactical line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight communications, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) services and L-band Advanced Communications Element (LACE) terminals.

•Maritime, which includes high-quality, resilient satellite-based broadband and narrowband communications services around the globe to commercial shipping fleets, offshore service vessel operators and commercial fishing companies, as well as NexusWave, a fully managed multi-layer connectivity service for merchant shipping companies. As of December 31, 2024, we provided Ka-band communication services to approximately 14,300 vessels.

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•Fixed services and other, which include high-speed, high-quality, reliable fixed broadband internet services to businesses and residential users (primarily in the United States as well as in various countries in Europe and Latin America), enterprise connectivity solutions, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and other narrowband services (such as L-band managed services that enable real-time machine-to-machine (M2M) position or high-value asset tracking), energy services, and prepaid internet services that provide innovative, affordable, satellite-based connectivity in communities that have little or no access to the internet. As of December 31, 2024, our U.S. fixed broadband business had approximately 205,000