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This paper argues that the intensifying race among major satellite broadband operators to maximise launches risks entrenching market dominance, limiting infrastructure-sharing opportunities, and increasing strategic dependence on a small number of providers. For Ireland, as an island nation with strong interests in resilience, maritime and rural connectivity, and public-interest access, a proportionate transparency regime in…
- Read more: Resilience as a Policy Response to Crisis?
‘Resilience’, both in public discourse and public policy, has become somewhat ubiquitous. We are constantly encouraged to build our resilience. We are told of how economies must become resilient to the inevitable shocks associated with an unstable world. Rating agencies directly assess economies’ resilience through debt stress-testing. Communities and regions across the world must become…


