Insiders at global satellite services provider Intelsat have told the UK’s Financial Times that it will shed assets to pay down its colossal $14.76 billion of debt. Over the past week its share price has plummeted from $9.83 to $7.60, down 54% from the start of this year. Intelsat’s debt dwarfs that of others in the industry, SES holds around $4.44 billion, Telesat $2.75 billion, and Eutelsat has a comparatively tiny debt of $55.35 million. Private equity firms BC Partners and Silver Lake acquired Intelsat in 2007 for $16.5 billion, when the company was already burdened with more than $11 billion debt, and it looks like business has not gone as well as they would like, hence the assets sell-off.…