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How to attribute Glenn Canales, what he covers, which Satellite Insights work you can cite without a subscription, and how to reach him.
40+
Years in satellite communications, much of it on the enterprise and ground-segment side
5
Coverage areas, from low Earth orbit broadband to the ground segment
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Independent sources for specific claims; anything single-sourced names its source
On record
The default for every conversation, unless agreed otherwise beforehand
How should a quote be attributed?
Glenn Canales, a satellite communications consultant and publisher of Satellite Insights Weekly. That is the short form. Communications Daily described him as a consultant when it cited his work in August 2026.
Where there is room for more: Glenn Canales, a satellite communications consultant with more than 40 years in the industry and publisher of Satellite Insights Weekly, an independent analysis of the satellite communications sector.
When citing a piece rather than a conversation, name Satellite Insights as the publication and link to the article itself. Use the plain address shown in the browser, with nothing added to the end of it, so the link points at the piece and keeps working if the page is updated or corrected later.
Who is Glenn Canales?
Free to use with coverage; no credit needed.
Glenn Canales has worked in satellite communications for more than 40 years. He ran enterprise broadband services for a major satellite operator, and before that held roles at Spacenet, iDirect Technologies, PanAmSat and Intelsat. He spent ten years at A.G. Edwards running a 700-node satellite network, and he began in a communications role in the US Air Force. Most of that career was spent close to the customer, on the networks, terminals and service contracts that turn satellite capacity into something an enterprise or a government can use.
He is Principal of Satellite Insights LLC, which publishes Satellite Insights Weekly and takes advisory and commissioned research work. His full background is on the About page.
What can he comment on?
The five areas Satellite Insights covers, with the kind of question each one tends to answer:
- Low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband
Starlink, Amazon Leo and OneWeb: capacity, pricing, and the gap between what a constellation is designed to deliver and what it has been shown to deliver.
- Geostationary (GEO) and highly elliptical orbit operator economics
Why operators order, retire or stop replacing satellites, and what their customers do when the fleet changes underneath them.
- Direct-to-device (D2D) and satellite Internet of Things (IoT)
Satellite service to ordinary phones and sensors: who pays for it, what carriers get out of it, and the spectrum and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceedings it depends on.
- Sovereign connectivity
IRIS² (the European Union's Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite), national constellations, landing rights, and why governments pay more to own capacity they could lease.
- Ground segment
Teleports, modems, ground networks offered as a service, and the economics of the vendors that build them.
Outside his lane: military procurement; aviation or maritime connectivity as stories in their own right; and in-depth financial analysis of a company, such as credit, capital structure or valuation. He reads an operator's financial results as one indicator of its health and market position, and will speak to them in that context. If a question lands outside his lane, he will say so and suggest who might be better placed to answer.
Which Satellite Insights work can be cited without a subscription?
Every public piece in the archive is open to every reader, so a link from a news story lands on the full analysis rather than a sign-up page. Three examples:
- Satellites Are the Cheap Part: Sizing SpaceX's Mobile Network
18 August 2026. A sample research report estimating that a 20-million-subscriber scenario for a SpaceX mobile network would need at least 37,000 to 62,000 cell sites to carry its traffic, which makes the terrestrial site layer, not spectrum or satellites, the binding constraint. Communications Daily cited it on 19 August. The report was revised on 8 October, and the revision is noted at the top of the piece.
- The Ka-Band Role Reversal: SpaceX Moves to Reopen the ViaSat-3 F2 Grant
1 September 2026. SpaceX's petition asking the FCC to reconsider ViaSat-3 F2's US market access in two Ka-band segments where non-geostationary systems have primary status and geostationary use is secondary.
- Grain's Buyers Need a Rule Change, Not Just a Waiver
25 August 2026. Why the buyer of Grain Management's 800 megahertz licenses needed an FCC rule change, not just a waiver, before it could sell satellite-to-phone service in the band. A dated note at the top covers SpaceX's 8 October agreement to buy the licenses and the FCC's 29 October proposal to add the band to its satellite-to-phone rules.
Newer analysis is published for paid members first, opens to free members after a few weeks, and to everyone about a month after that. If the figure you need sits in a members-only piece, ask: you will get the passage and the sources behind it.
What are the ground rules for an interview?
- On the record by default. Background or not-for-attribution is fine when it is agreed before the conversation starts.
- Figures come with a source and a date. Specifications are described as specifications and measurements as measurements, so "designed for" and "demonstrated" are never used interchangeably.
- Corrections are published openly. When a published piece gets something wrong, the correction goes at the top of the piece and states what it originally said, what changed and why.
- Commercial relationships are disclosed. Glenn is a former Viasat employee. He does not comment on a company he is advising and will tell you that is the reason. He discloses any holding in a company when he comments on it, and he takes paid expert-network consultations.
- Charts and tables may be reproduced in news coverage and commentary, unaltered, with the credit "Source: Satellite Insights" and a link to the piece they come from. Use in paid reports, client deliverables or other commercial products needs permission first. Third-party data shown in a chart stays subject to its original source's terms.
How to reach him
Email glenn@satelliteinsights.com with "Press" in the subject line, or message him on LinkedIn. He replies within one business day. He works on Central European Time, which puts the US East Coast morning in his afternoon. For a longer conversation, book a 20-minute call directly.
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