Hispasat

Hispasat

http://www.hispasat.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hispasat/

Hispasat, a privately owned company headquartered in Spain, with Redeia as its parent company and Hispamar as a subsidiary, was founded in 1989 and operates with approximately 230 employees, reporting $249.8M in revenue as of 2024. The company functions as a telecoms provider and a tier 1 media tech buyer, specializing in the operation of Spanish communications satellites. It focuses on the audiovisual distribution of content, with its satellites providing digital and cable broadcasting services in Spain.

Revenue

Founded

1989

Headcount

433

Headquarters

Spain

Primary Segment

Telecoms

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

1

News Summary:

Hispasat and Portuguese telecommunications company NOS renewed their multi-year agreement for satellite television distribution (DTH) across Portugal and its archipelagos on December 3, 2025, consolidating an alliance of more than 20 years. Previously, on November 27, 2025, the General Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Indra Group approved the acquisition of 89.68% of Hispasat S.A.'s social capital. Earlier, on June 17, 2025, Hispasat and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced an agreement to develop the initial phase of Q-Design, a project combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) through geostationary and low orbit satellites and terrestrial infrastructure with a consortium of 15 companies and organizations. This followed the January 22, 2025, announcement that Hispasat incorporated IOTLatam's sensors and analytics into its Tower Insight solution, which allows continuous monitoring of cellular tower status for telco customers in Latin America, Europe, and Africa through a web platform.

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Hispasat offers 6 products in the connectivity and cloud, media and telecoms services, media tech and telecoms tech industries. Hispasat's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, connectivity and distribution services, telecoms and enterprise connectivity services.

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Hispasat's revenues were less than $500M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Hispasat's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is consumer broadband. For full access to Hispasat's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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