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Hughes expects to become a key go-to-market partner for all major LEO players, including Starlink, Amazon’s Kuiper, and Canada’s Telesat, especially as regulatory clearance nears and spectrum pricing norms are being finalised.
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IndiGo has invited a Request for Proposal from satellite services provider to launch inflight connectivity as it prepares to launch in-flight connectivity on around 25 aircraft in 2025.
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The notification comes amidst an ongoing tussle between Reliance Jio and other satellite communication (satcom) players
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Eutelsat OneWeb recently urged the DoT to provisionally allot them the spectrum until the regulator completes the pricing and other terms consultation process.
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Most companies with a GSO communication satellite globally are interested in obtaining authorisation to launch services in India, Goenka said.
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OneWeb is expected to get an interim spectrum allocation to launch commercial satcom service in the country. Elon Musk’s Starlink has, so far, only tapped lightly regulated markets. India mandates gateways, legal interceptions and licences from the telecom department and IN-SPACe.
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Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal’s statement reiterating the ARPU target of Rs 300 also seems to have bolstered the sentiment around the stock.
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The Bharti group chairman said that while Elon Musk's Starlink poses competition, the company's business model targets the consumer segment, whereas OneWeb focuses on B2B use cases.
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"India has become home to at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, comprising a local research field that stands to transform the planet's connection to the final frontier," the New York Times has said.
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Sharing details of OneWeb launch and services, Mittal said that the services will be affordable and at par with that of mobile rates if a community of 30-40 homes in a village use it.
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Although the Indian Space Research Organisation is yet to release information about launch dates, it is expected that it will happen by the end of this month
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The latest launch brings the total OneWeb constellation to 582 satellites.
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The Falcon rocket blasted off at sunset with 40 mini satellites bound for polar orbit. They will expand OneWeb’s constellation to just over 500, nearly 80 percent of the planned total of about 630 satellites.
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"A huge thanks to the teams at ISRO and NewSpace India Limited for a successful lift off!" London-based company OneWeb tweeted after the liftoff.
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On Sunday, the 43.5 metre tall rocket soared majestically at 12.07 am from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at the end of the 24-hour countdown.
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Mittal, whose Bharti Enterprises is one of the biggest investors in OneWeb, said two commercial launches have been confirmed with ISRO "with a cost outlay of Rs 1,000 crore".
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The MoU was signed to address the potential satellite connectivity market for both B2B and B2C segments for reliable connectivity
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OneWeb shareholders will hold 50% of Eutelsat, which will continue to be listed in Paris and will ask to be listed on the London Stock Exchange, the companies announced in a statement Tuesday. The announcement confirms talks made official on Monday and first reported by Bloomberg last week.
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British satellite firm OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France’s Eutelsat Communications SA in a transaction that would create a pan-European operator that could better compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink project, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The first launch with New Space India is expected in 2022 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
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The British firm expects its first launch with SpaceX this year to add to its in-orbit constellation of 428 satellites.
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While the US, UK and Japan have imposed severe economic sanctions on Russia, India has refrained from directly criticising Russia for invading Ukraine.
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The services in India will be provided by Hughes and Bharti Airtel joint venture Hughes Communications India Private Ltd.
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Currently the connectivity is accessible in all areas over 50 degrees on the atlas. “Latency is less than 50 milliseconds, and speeds are 100 Mbps or more. So it's looking like a final solution to connect those people who have been left behind. So I am very excited about this. I call it a telecom network in space," Mittal said.
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The joint venture firm will see the deployment of OneWeb's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide connectivity to enable Neom's ecosystem of cognitive technologies.
