Polarization, The reason mostly big operators like PTCL, Jazz etc. has Circular polarization. Total around 2100 MHz satellite bandwidth is used by telecom and media operators. Which is approximately further divided as 51% linear,21% circular (Max C band) ,19% MEO HTS and 9% is Geo HTS. User wise segmentation of satellite bandwidth users is approximately 67% telecom,27% broadcaster and 6% Govt user. Later in year 2011, Pakistani Satellite Paksat-1R was commissioned which had only linear polarization. Paksat 1R (total capacity-1224 is all linear as per website), till now Paksat Intl has not secured 100%, which is 51% total satellite bandwidth user demand). Having no circular or Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) high-capacity satellite. This mean 49% of market share is state away with foreign satellites operators.
Paksat 1R design life is till 2Pakistan started using Satellite services in 80s (PTCL) with Intelsat C band (circular 026, with Paksat MM1 coming on 30 May 2024.Capacity to be sold by will be 5752/5920 MHz against the market utilization of 2100 MHz. Three time more than the market consumption at present. (1224 MHz Paksat 1R, 2608MHz/2776 MHz, KU and 3144 MHz/10 Gbps of Ka band Paksat MM1). All these aspects must have been accounted for and well planned.
Customer in market are believing that gateway of Ka band are ready, packages of Ka band are yet to introduced and customers waiting. Due diligence must have been done to keep the preferred polarization in C /Ku bands. Customer believe they will get seamless migration and better rates.
