Five years ago this week… Israeli telco Bezeq announced its satellite platform Yes would cease DTH transmissions, migrating 60,000 subscribers to OTT in a final blow to Spacecom as Israel’s primary satellite operator. The move echoed similar transitions by DirecTV (owned by AT&T at the time) and Comcast’s Sky. Faultline argued that the biggest single factor making OTT video a viable alternative to satellite transmission at scale was the development and maturation of multicast ABR, which brings non-negligible cost savings over unicast delivery for the likes of live sports events. Ateme reached the milestone of €100 million ($108.6 million) in revenue for the full-year 2023, marking a 10% year on year lift for the French video encoding business. However, a successful year…