"Do you think NEA will continue to succeed in growing profits in...

"Do you think NEA will continue to succeed in growing profits in the US the way it has in Australia?"

No I think the profits are overstated and the costs are understated, they need to provide more in depth break down of both. Breaking into the US for any company is never easy.

"Do you think it has a clear niche that it is operating in that is different to digiglobe?"

NEA is one regulation away from being obsolete if DigitalGlobe are approved to use global images of 10cm. With the recent approval for 30cm images, that will already be more than sufficient resolution for large number of customers US and worldwide.

The resolution restriction on commercial satellites is from the cold war, apparently lawmakers are keen to see it removed in attempt to fend off Chinese and Indian commercial satellite companies. If there is going to be commercial satellites above providing 10cm images, US Govt would naturally want those images to be provided by a US company supported by technology from US companies like Lockheed Martin.

Since Digitalglobe bought out GeoEye last year they now have the monopoly.

Also it seems to help Digitalglobe become the worlds main provider of satellite hi res images, US Govt has passed laws to restrict exports of hi imagery satellite technology to likes of China and India.


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Kat.