GSAT vs GDS Comparison

Globalstar Inc is a telecommunications company that derives revenue from the provision of mobile satellite services. Mobile satellite services, including voice and data communications services to retail, business, and governmental customers, as well as wholesale satellite capacity services. The company provides communications services such as two-way voice and data transmission. In addition, one-way data transmission is also offered. Both services are offered using mobile or fixed devices. The company is the owner of satellite assets. It has one reportable segment: the MSS business. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue within the United States.

GDS Holdings started as an IT service provider in 2001, then moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The company now develops and operates data centers in China and also builds, operates, and transfers data centers for other clients. It offers colocation and managed services and mainly targets hyperscale cloud service customers who take large areas of its data centers or even whole data centers under long-term contracts. Its data centers are located predominantly in and around the Tier 1 cities in China, and it has also started expanding into Southeast Asia via the now 23% owned DayOne. GDS listed on the Nasdaq in 2016 and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2020.